Shock jocks' skit pulled by Philly Radio Station

Date: Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:52 AM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

by Rob Sanchez
January 13, 2005 No. 1177

Do not listen to the sound clip if you are easily offended. The
language is very crude.

While I don't support what this shock jock did I think his anger should
be taken very seriously because he reflects a rising hostility in the
United States towards the outsourcing of our jobs. I just wish he would
vent his anger at the politicians that are pushing free trade policies
instead of at that woman in India that has no control over what our
corporations are doing.

radio show web site:
http://www.power99.com/star_bucwild/starbucwild.html

listen to the clip:
http://www.turbanhead.com/Power99_Call_to_India.mp3

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Posted on Tue, Jan. 11, 2005

Shock jocks' skit pulled by Power 99

By Daniel Rubin
Inquirer Staff Writer

WUSL-FM (Power 99) conceded yesterday that an on-air routine by morning
shock jocks Star and Buc Wild was "racially inflammatory" and pulled an
audio clip of it off the station Web site.

Community-affairs director Loraine Ballard Morrill, who has fielded
more than 130 angry e-mails and phone calls, said the station
reprimanded the employee who posted the clip on the Web.

On the clip, part of a show that aired last month without complaint,
Star posed as a white father trying to buy beads so his 6-year-old
daughter could look like tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.

After learning his query had been answered by a call center in India,
he exploded, blasting the woman who answered as "a filthy rat eater"
and threatening to "come out there and choke the... out of you."

Rita Addessa, executive director of the Pennsylvania Lesbian & Gay Task
Force, said she was "appalled" when another human-rights activist
forwarded her the audio file. "I couldn't believe in the year 2005 that
any broadcaster would dare be so racist and misogynistic," she said.

In an e-mail to members of Asian cultural and journalism associations,
Devalina Guha-Roy, who teaches at a Head Start program in Philadelphia,
called the crank call "outright racism."

Since the Star and Buc Wild show began airing on Power 99 three months
ago, the duo has grabbed an increasing share of young audiences.
They're also syndicated in Hartford, Conn., and Augusta, Ga., and are
to return to New York this month, on WWPR-FM.

The two aired in New York from 2000 to 2003, and were suspended after
Star made fun of the death of singer Aaliyah in a plane crash.

Morrill said station managers have had "extensive discussions" since
learning about the clip Thursday with Star, whose real name is Troi
Torain, and Buc Wild, his half-brother, Timothy Joseph.

"It was made clear this is not acceptable, and it won't happen again,"
Morrill said.

She said the more serious matter was posting the clip on the Web site.
"That probably made it a much more - just a worse situation. Then
people could click on it and hear it. That was not cool... . He made a
big ol' mistake in judgment."

The employee who posted the clip on the Internet will undergo
sensitivity training, she said. The station also planned to post an
apology.

"Essentially [we're] apologizing for things on our Web site that were
racially inflammatory and insensitive, saying, 'We took it off our Web
site and it won't happen again.' "

Most of the e-mails came from people who do not listen to Power 99,
whose audience is mainly African American, she said. Power 99 is owned
by Clear Channel Communications, which adopted a "zero-tolerance"
policy last year, dropping Howard Stern and paying a record $1.75
million fine for indecency.

Contact staff writer Daniel Rubin at 215-854-5958 or
dan.rubin@phillynews.com.

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