No Rock And Roll Fun

THERE'S POOR JUDGEMENT, AND THEN...: We're still not entirely sure how anyone at New York's Hot 97 could have thought a jolly song about the tsunami was worth broadacasting, much less acceptable:

The piece used racial slurs to describe people swept away in the disaster, made jokes about child slavery and people watching their mothers die. "You can hear God laughing, 'Swim you bitches, swim,"' was one line in the song.

You might wonder what senior management were doing while the song was broadcast. In the case of Hot 97's programme director, Tarsha Nicole Jones, she was actually presenting the show. Presumably she judged that once the death toll passed the quarter million mark, it became fair game for a bit of a snicker.