govt-licensed broadcaster bans songs
Greg Newby
gbnewby at ils.unc.edu
Thu Oct 18 10:16:27 PDT 2001
Do a little research, man. Clear Channel denied this,
and even posted a luke-warm press release about it. Do a simple
search at groups.google.com , you'll see about a thousand
different messages in different forums where this
was discussed.
I'm not saying it's a hoax, but there's a lot more to
the story (or a lot less) than the month-old message
you circulated. Better luck next time...
-- Greg
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:42:59AM -0700, Optimizzin Al-gorithm wrote:
>
> http://michaelmoore.com/2001_0922.html :
>
> ... He passed on to me a confidential memo from the radio conglomerate
> that
> owns his station: Clear Channel, the company that has bought up 1,200
> stations altogether -- 247 of them in the nation's 250 largest radio
> markets -- and that not only dominates the Top 40 format, but controls
> 60% of all rock-radio listening.
>
> The company has ordered its stations not to play a list of 150 songs
> during this "national emergency." The list, incredibly, includes "Bridge
>
> Over Troubled Water," "Peace Train," and John Lennon's "Imagine."
>
>
> [ Ed note: they should have included Brian Eno's BURNING AIRLINES GIVE
> YOU SO MUCH MORE. They got Talking Head's BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
> but not LIFE DURING WARTIME.]
>
>
>
> ===
>
> http://michaelmoore.com/mirrors/banned_songs_list1.htm
>
>
> From: Independent Media Center
> http://radio.indymedia.org:8081
>
> Songs banned on corporate radio Tuesday 18 Sep 2001
> author: microradio at lists.tao.ca
>
> summary
> Another Gathering of Judgment Calls in the Wake of Disaster September
> 14, 2001
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