{"id":67,"date":"2007-10-16T07:21:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T13:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/unfortunate-distraction\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T07:21:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T13:21:41","slug":"unfortunate-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/unfortunate-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was about to go shower this morning, but I heard the people on the Today Show mention that Don Imus was coming back to the radio and I was sufficiently distracted from everything.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I’m sure this news will distract many others from more important things in their lives, as well. For more information, here’s the story: http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/business\/2007\/10\/15\/radio-imus-wabc-biz-media-cx_tvr_1015imus.html<\/a><\/p>\n

In my opinion, Imus should never be allowed near a microphone again.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because he had a very privileged position that he valued less than he should have.\u00a0 Had he valued his privileged position in society, he would have respected its power and intentionally avoided statements like the one that got him fired from CBS in the first place.\u00a0 The point many people made on the Today show was that people should be allowed second chances and redemption.\u00a0 I agree, but I think that the position that Imus had in the media was so privileged and prominent that even just one mistake should be enough to make a person have to start back at the beginning if s\/he wants to remain in that field.\u00a0 Here’s the thing: there are so\u00a0many people that would work harder than Imus ever has for anything just to get a radio show for a week that his blunder should make him completely irrelevant. \u00a0Media is a highly\u00a0competitive industry and should remain that way.\u00a0 When people make highly visible mistakes, they should not necessarily be “punished”, but room should be made for their successors to show them how to appreciate their (former) careers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By never being in the media again, Imus would not be denied any second chances by any means.\u00a0 There’s no reason he couldn’t change careers – that’s an automatic second chance.\u00a0 If, for some reason, he thinks he’s so special he needs to remain in radio, he should start over.\u00a0 He should have to get a menial job working for the people that were his support staff.\u00a0 And then he should have to prove himself worthy of each pay raise and promotion that he wants.\u00a0 Just like everybody else.\u00a0 No one should be special enough to screw up like he did and, just months later, enter into a new position so similar to the one in which he screwed up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But what does it matter what I think?\u00a0 I think that we should pay people what they’re worth to society.\u00a0 Teachers should get paid a lot.\u00a0 Football and baseball players should get paid competitively for actual time on the field.\u00a0 So a high paid football\/baseball player could get $0.83 per minute of field play.\u00a0 But that’s another story altogether.\u00a0 Maybe some other time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was about to go shower this morning, but I heard the people on the Today Show mention that Don Imus was coming back to the radio and I was sufficiently distracted from everything.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I’m sure this news will distract many others from more important things in their lives, as well. For more information, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,35,55,83],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-ethics","tag-life","tag-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-15","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}