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CBS has fired Imus from his radio program. Click here for AP story.

From guest blogger Catherine comes this point well made: It's a shame that in order for a women's collegiate athletic team to receive national attention they must first be subjected to derrogatory remarks. The NCAA Women's Basketball Championship game, in which the Rutgers women's basketball team played, did not make front page news in the sports section of The Washington Post prior to the game -- or in the days following the game. Perhaps if women athletes received the respect by the media that they deserve -- and that their male counterparts are generously given -- then Imus would not have made such remarks. Ironically, it took the insult of Imus' comments for the outstanding athletes on the Rutgers women's basketball team to have their photograph published on the front page of The Washington Post and to be interviewed on national television. Those who are infuriated by his remarks should be equally ouraged by the lack of respect shown to the women athletes i...

This morning, mes amis , the venerable Diane Rehm devoted her first hour to the Imus affair. Her guests were Clarence Page , syndicated columnist, Chicago Tribune ; Michael Meyers , executive director, New York Civil Rights Coalition; and Frank Ahrens , Washington Post radio reporter. Now, couldn't one of those African-American men been excused in order to make way for a black woman commentator? This is after all, a story, in the the words of Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer "about the degradation of women." Enough already with the all-male commentary rosters on this story! You may write Diane Rehm at: drshow@wamu.org.