Imus is suspended; will it be enough?

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2007 | by Gail Shister Inquirer Staff Writer

Radio "shock jock" Don Imus has been hit with a shock of his own.

The popular personality, known as "I-Man," will be suspended for two weeks, beginning Monday, for his on-air racial slurs about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, CBS and NBC officials confirmed late yesterday.

The syndicated  Imus in the Morning  is broadcast from CBS-owned WFAN in New York from 6 to 9 a.m. weekdays, and is carried on more than 90 radio stations nationwide, according to the show's Web site. (Locally, it is heard on WWDB-FM.) MSNBC, owned by NBC, simulcasts the show.

In a strongly worded statement, NBC labeled Imus' comments "racist" and "abhorrent," and said he was dedicating himself to changing "the discourse of...