I'm pleased to report that following an amazing outburst of anti-transgender abuse yesterday, Kimberly Ray and Barry Beck, the hosts of The Breakfast Buzz on Rochester, N.Y., radio station 98.9 The Buzz, have now been fired by the station's parent company, Entercom Rochester.
This is an incredible story. What on earth were they thinking? How did they think they could possibly spout all that hate-filled drivel and still keep their jobs?
You can read the original story and hear the actual radio segment at...
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/05/21/rochester-ny-radio-hosts-go-transphobic-rant
...and then get the latest on the story at...
http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/05/22/rochester-ny-radio-hosts-fired-following-transphobic-rant&c=kx3coZ35zblf4ybvEIhkxtoHACQxA4hgcukmwPNg0Ec&mkt=en-us.
Then tell us your thoughts on this by replying here.
I'm still dumbfounded by it all. Astonishing!
Katie
Glad I don't live in New York. I knew some places in the states were bad, bible belt in particular, but it's hard to believe people in a place as diverse as New York would be like this. I am really glad to see the parent company stepped in and did what needed to be done, the world that we are forced to live in is changing for the better, but not fast enough.
Getting paid good money to abuse the freedom of speech, and then not expect reporcussions(sp?) is a little nieve, and totally foolish. Stations should blackball them and steps taken to remove their Fcc Licenses. If nothing else, use these offensive, ignorant people as a test case.
Bobbi
I recently read an article for women about 8 stories where the guy did not have a clue. After that I will believe anything about cluelssness. The thing is they fired some other radio station person for that kind of crap not long ago in the US. How could they not know about that? Why did the station not tell it's employees: DON'T DO THIS.