{"id":261,"date":"2005-01-26T18:44:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T23:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=261"},"modified":"2005-01-26T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T23:48:33","slug":"and-speaking-of-a-lack-of-originality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"And SPEAKING of a lack of originality&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a case where a lack of originality also meets bad taste.<\/p>\n<p>The crew of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hot97.com\/airstaff\/morningShow.aspx?origin=nav\">Miss Jones Show<\/a> (also, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missjones.net\/\">external site<\/a>) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hot97.com\/\">WQHT FM in New York (&#8220;Hot 97&#8221;)<\/a>  was suspended after it repeatedly ran a song &#8211;  to the tune of &#8220;We Are the World,&#8221; of course &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmqb.com\/Article.asp?id=63741\">making fun of tsunami victims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/01\/26\/quake.slur.reut\/index.html\">CNN version<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The piece used racial slurs to describe people swept away in the disaster, made jokes about child slavery and people watching their mothers die. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can hear God laughing, &#8216;Swim you b**ches swim,&#8217; &#8221; was one line in the song, sung by staff of the show to the melody of the 1985 famine relief song &#8220;We Are the World.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who could&#8217;ve possibly green lighted this?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning crew of HOT 97 FM in New York was fired today, after repeteadly running a gag skit which ridiculed tsunami victims.., to the tune of &#8220;We Are the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}