{"id":1644,"date":"2005-05-26T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T21:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1644"},"modified":"2006-11-11T01:09:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T06:09:59","slug":"jersey_guys_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/jersey_guys_to\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey Guys apologize (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ceaseracism.blogspot.com\/\">Lester Gesteland<\/A>&nbsp;quotes an <A href=\"http:\/\/www.asianmediawatchdog.com\">Asian Media Watchdog<\/A>&nbsp;email&nbsp;saying <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001428.html\">the Jersey Guys<\/A> will <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001428.html#comment11830\">apologize on air<\/A>: \n<BLOCKQUOTE>&#8230; 101.5FM agreed in writing to the following. \n<UL>\n<LI>Issue an on air, formal &amp; blanket apology by the &#8220;Jersey Guys,&#8221; \n<LI>Invite Jun Choi (the KoreanAm candidate who was attacked) to be a guest by &#8220;Jersey Guys&#8230;&#8221;<\/LI><\/UL>\n<P>&#8230; Comcast and Verizon agreed to suspend their radio ads&#8230;. &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenspeak.org\/campaign\/5366.php\">Kick The Jersey Guys Off The Air!<\/A>&#8221; collected the largest amount of signatures in the shortest amount of time, even more so than our last major campaign, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000976.html\">Hot 97<\/A>&#8230;<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>Gesteland, who&#8217;s got three <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hapa\">hapa<\/A> kids, says: \n<BLOCKQUOTE>This evening my wife was listening to the infamous Carton &amp; Rossi show when she heard <A href=\"http:\/\/www.junchoi.com\/\">Jun Choi<\/A> being interviewed&#8230;<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>Choi is running for mayor of the desi haven of Edison, NJ. Now <EM>that&#8217;s<\/EM> consumer power.&nbsp;Well done.<\/P>\n<P><STRONG>Update:<\/STRONG> Carton apologized, and Choi raked him on air, telling him why his comments were offensive. Listen here: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.asianmediawatch.net\/jerseyguys\/audio\/nj1015_may25_p1.ram\">part 1<\/A>, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.asianmediawatch.net\/jerseyguys\/audio\/nj1015_may25_p2.ram\">part 2<\/A><\/P><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester Gesteland&nbsp;quotes an Asian Media Watchdog&nbsp;email&nbsp;saying the Jersey Guys will apologize on air: &#8230; 101.5FM agreed in writing to the following. Issue an on air, formal &#038; blanket apology by the &#8220;Jersey Guys,&#8221; Invite Jun Choi (the KoreanAm candidate who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/jersey_guys_to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}