Hot 97 Morning Personality In Hot Water

She's hot, she's got great ratings, but she is also bad. Miss Jones first made the HBB website when she performed the utterly tasteless "Tsunami Song" after the horrible Tsunami trajedy in South Asia in December of 2004. Now she's taking on the head of the NY Transit Union after the short lived transit strike in the summer of 2005.

Hot 97 Morning Personality In Hot Water With NY PoliticianThe New York Daily News reports that Hot 97 morning host Miss Jones made some critical on-air comments about Transport Workers Union head Roger Toussaint and striking New York City transit workers which have gotten her in trouble with city council member Yvette Clarke. Clarke is calling for a boycott of the station's advertisers and wants Jones fired. Jones, meanwhile, was criticized last year for airing a parody about tsunami victims in Asia. In a recent broadcast of Jones' show, she reportedly labeled transit workers as uneducated and overpaid persons who got their jobs by making poor career choices early in life. She also reportedly called Trinidad-born TWU local president Toussaint "a dumb coconut who probably doesn't have a green card." "It is my intention to bring this issue to my colleagues in the City Council and introduce a resolution calling for the permanent removal of the Miss Jones in the Morning show and the economic boycott of Hot 97 and its advertisers," said Clarke, who was angered by Jones' comments. "It was nearly a year ago that I joined other New Yorkers in denouncing Miss Jones and Hot 97 for airing a parody that ridiculed tsunami victims. Clearly, the outcry, demonstrations and resulting suspensions did not provide an impetus for cultural sensitivity from these individuals."

RadioInk.com November 5, 2005