Thu 26 Apr 2007
Asian American groups call for CBS to fire New York shock-jocks (San Francisco Chronicle)
Posted by Editor under Media/EntertainmentProminent Asian American civil rights groups in the Bay Area are demanding that CBS Radio fire New York shock-jocks Jeff Vandergrift and Dan Lay, who were suspended earlier this week for making a prank phone call to a Chinese restaurant seen as racist and sexist.
Today, the coalition of groups submitted a letter to CBS Radio, calling for the network to improve its guidelines on offensive terms, to communicate periodically with civil rights and community groups and to fire the duo — who had broadcast on Bay Area airwaves for more than a decade before they went to New York in 2005 — and their producer at WFNY-FM.