KTRS morning host fired

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/23/djfired.rice.ap/index.html

Did he say something bad? Yes. Did he immediately realize it? Yes. Did Dorsey overreact by firing him? Here's where I allow the conspiracy theories.

I worked for KTRS for about 4 1/2 months. During that time I realized (along with Darrell) that the only reason we were hired were to prevent us from going to a rival station. This factor among numerous other things leads me to constantly believe the absolute worst when it comes to Dorsey. Was this "coon" incident the thing he needed to dump the new morning guy?

Sometime over the past year, the St.L Cardinals bought 1/2 ownership of the station. I guess Dorsey's money finally was used up and he couldn't find any more silent partners to help him out. My theory (which I haven't checked the STL media message boards or the like to verify any of this) is that the new half-owners strongly suggested that Dorsey dump his morning show (which has been a revolving door position since he bought the station in '98-ish) and hire this guy from another station in the market. As he did with us, he was probably already baiting the guy to buy as big of a house as his new paycheck could buy and probably suggesting "just a few tweaks" to the show. "But it's your show, I don't want you to do anything you don't want." - Damn, I heard that come out of his mouth so many fuckin' times!

Now, Dorsey gets out of this contract, sticks it to his new partners - "I told you we should have...", and saves all the money that he put in the contract likely because of a decency/controversy clause that releases the station from obligations if he says anything stupid on the air.

Had this incident happened at a station owned by someone WITH A SOUL; I would have done or expected mgt to do any/all of the following:
1. A short suspension of the host
2. A full volley on all TV news stations of station manager and host apologizing for the slip.
3. Time during suspension to be used to put host in front of all concerned political/racial groups. Use the time to show how host isn't a racist, wants these minorities to be a part of his show, and possibly get additional press from participation in group activities.
4. Create a racial harmony fundraiser to kick off immediately after the host returns to the air.
5. Have the minority owners of the station come on the air to support him - Ozzie used to be a silent partner of KTRS. Can't remember who other Cards/NFL Cards also owned a bit of the station.

I'll now go back to trying to ignore all work-related memories from St. Louis...

Another miserable Thursday?

Nigel was up at 5am. I put him down for his nap at 10:05am. He woke up at 10:35am. I tried to get him to go back to sleep. I had him down in his bed twice, but both times his hand would "wake up" and start figiting with his face. After a minute, he would be awake again. At 11:05am, I gave up getting him back to sleep.

The baby usually gets 2-3 hours during his nap. Given his early wake-up and short nap, this evening will be...most joyous. *sigh*

I hope Calvin's day is improving at the park. He actually slept in a good bit, but arose quite cranky. He went to time-out before he even got out of his PJs.

I'm going to take a 500 mg dose of chill pill before JD leaves to teach class tonight. I should have left the house last night for a couple of hours since I didn't have Scouts to go to, as usual. I was suckered into helping out a lot and Selfish Cory is very pissed about that right now. Although, I shouldn't complain...I did play a ton of Madden 2005 on the GameCube while JD did most of the work.

Right now, I'm really starting to fantasize about next week when Spring Break is over, JD and Calvin go back to school, and Nigel spends a few hours with his grandma so I can get work done around the house without distraction.