The Business Day section of the New York Times: “Off the air: The light goes out for Don Imus”. “CBS Radio yields to pressure cutting ties to radio host."
This is an extremely wealthy man with an estimated radio income in excess of 10 million annually. That’s just radio; not bad for a fellow heard on only some 60 stations.

Another headline: “Flying Solo into the teeth of a maelstrom, Imus found himself without safe haven”.
Think about it, when you lose all your sponsors, for whatever reason, the talent is frequently “let go”. Let’s be frank, Imus has a long history of saying far more negative and divisive things.

Here’s a heading: "The Imus Scandal. A second financial blow for struggling CBS Radio." It continues: "The Cost of Don Imus’ departure is unclear. But one observer says “it’s going to be painful”.
To which I add – enter the lawyers. Imus had recently signed a five year extension to his contract. I don’t think that CBS will miss the I-mans impact on the business bottom line. He wasn’t that successful, financially for the network. Legal action will probably go on for ages.

On the opinion page of the Daily News: "Sharpton, Jackson Racist pair". Oh boy: Referring to two Reverends who lead the protest: Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. The writer, Gail Saunders writes “If they really wanted to help the black community get respect, then they would be addressing what is plaguing it from within”. Worth thinking about.
My own view on that is – who made Sharpton and Jackson our "arbiters of good taste”. They have also done-good, but they’ve done their fair share of attacking innocent people in a like fashion.

As hateful as Imus’s words are, maybe we should listen more carefully to the words that pound from the boomboxes of this nation; filled with anger, hate, disrespect for women, vulgarity. The Wall Street Journal…Headline…”Behind the Fall of Don Imus” – a digital brushfire.
My comment: The problem here is the people he talked about are innocent, young, fresh, talented student athletes, who strived and did something excellent.

Headline “Media elite winked at Imus’s antics because of his bully pulpit". Tim Rutin the columnist had a lot to say, including “For some time now, our national conversation- as expressed in commentary and entertainment- has become increasingly coarse, violent, vulgar and just plain mean."
Wouldn’t it be great if his job loss became a turning point in our national dialogue …for the better.