At the Washington Times, Adrienne Washington calls on the memory of civil rights leader C. DeLores Tucker:

No doubt, the late president of the National Congress of Black Women, might be loudest among the critics calling for the ouster of radio talk-show host Don Imus for the racist and sexist comments he made about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

But Mrs. Tucker's tirade would not stop, as it shouldn't, with the race-baiting-for- ratings ploy of an aging, white radio shock jock. After all, Mr. Imus is not the first person to call black women disparaging and disrespectful names. Just tune in to any urban radio station.

PBS's NewsHour has a transcript of Jeffrey Brown's discussion with columnists Clarence Page and Tom Oliphant. Page stopped appearing on Imus' show in 2000. Oliphant appeared with him this morning. Page doesn't believe Imus will "reform."

The last time I was on the show, I elicited a pledge from Don and listing about six or seven different offenses at that time, including the Gwen Ifill episode, and elicited a pledge from him, without any resistance, that he would avoid that sort of behavior.

I took him at his word. And we went on with the interview, and then he hasn't called me back since. And so it makes it very easy for me to say now that I wouldn't be comfortable being on his program now, considering his falling off the wagon, if you will, from the pledge he took.

Think this story is multi-layered? Media Matters is keeping track of the media's response to ...itself: They look at responses from Newsweek editor Howard Fineman, Tom Oliphant, and note Imus will be back -- just in time for sweeps.

MM also points that news outlets are busy spinning it, noting ABC's World News highlighted appearances on Imus by NBC's Russert, but not by its own anchor.