City Council OKs Resolution Urging Media To Curb 'Racist, Sexist Slurs'
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The City Council has approved a resolution calling on local TV and radio stations to limit any "racist" and "sexist" comments on their broadcasts.
The City Council voted 13-2 to pass the resolution with a motion urging "the management of radio and television stations in Los Angeles to do everything in their power to ensure that their on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs over public airwaves in the City of Los Angeles".
Councilmen Joe Buscaino and Mitchell Englander cast the two opposing votes to the resolution, which was introduced on Mar. 7 by Councilwoman Jan Perry in response to a the controversy over recent comments by KFI 640 talk radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou.
The duo had recently drawn criticism for referring to the late pop singer Whitney Houston as a "crack ho" in February in the wake of her untimely death.
While largely a symbolic gesture, the resolution warned controversial comments from on-air talent like Kobylt and Chiampou along with others is "intolerable" and can potentially lead to "an environment where negative comments can go unchecked and corporate guidelines and policies are no longer being enforced".
