I’m grateful that Don Imus made an ass of himself on his radio show. Why? It’s given the New York tabloids a chance to flex their headline writing muscles.
Imus is like a fastball down the middle for headline writers. A gift from the news gods. Rarely do they have a villain and the opportunity to use the word “ho” in a headline. So I went to the Web sites of the two New York bastions of sensationalism with glee this morning. The results of my exploration, however, were a mixed bag.
The New York Daily News chose to go the safe route with the rather vanilla “I-Mess! Don is booted for 2 weeks.” Frankly, I give it a 2 out of 10. Short on creativity and short on potential. No mention of ho. No vicious berating. I felt like a kid on Halloween who opens up his bag to find it filled with raisins and apples.
So I went to the New York Post hoping to recoup the minute and 33 seconds of time I invested in this endeavor.
And there it was splashed on the front page: “Don Ho!” Yes! It was followed by another headline that read: “Imus gets the old ‘heave-ho.” — T.K. Kim
This article appears in Apr 4-10, 2007.
If any of you care to read it, one of our writers over at Highbrid Nation worked with Imus over at WFAN for several years and recently chimed in on the whole situation. He also reveals some details that the media is failing to report on in regards to the suspension