Do a little research, man. Clear Channel denied this,
No shit ? PR dept. docs are now the "proof" ? http://slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/18/2001&idMessage=8318 : Last night when Chatterbox spoke with Jack Evans, a regional senior vice president of programming at the radio station chain Clear Channel Communications, he acknowledged that his company had distributed to its programmers a list of songs with questionable lyrics that stations should avoid in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack. (Click here for his original statements on the list, and scroll down for the content of the list itself.) Today, however, Clear Channel issued a press release denying the existence of the list, and the Web site of Radio Ink, a radio industry trade publication, reported, "Clear Channel confirmed to Radio Ink this morning that the banned list was only an Internet rumor." So what's the truth here? Clear Channel admits it distributed a list of songs to program directors. It obviously wasn't encouraging stations to play songs like "Another One Bites the Dust." If you read the press release carefully, it appears Clear Channel is weaseling out of sticky situation: "Clear Channel Radio has not banned any songs from any of its radio stations." Right. They didn't ban any songs, they simply asked that stations not play them. Chatterbox wonders if there's another song they might want to add to this supposedly nonexistent list: a little something by the Sex Pistols. http://slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/17/2001&idMessage=8314 : Jack Evans, a regional senior VP of programming at Clear Channel insisted this list was not an effort initiated by management: "After and during what was happening in New York and Washington and outside of Pittsburgh, some of our program directors began e-mailing each other about songs and questionable song titles," though the finished list was distributed to the program directors by Clear Channel management. Evans concedes that some of the songs are off base: "I think there were certainly songs on the list that people were reading too much into" (the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," perchance?) though he supports the list in general. "There were a substantial amount of songs in question that I'm glad the [program directors] brought up so we didn't air them at a very, very sad time." You can judge for yourself. Here's the list, with original spellings intact. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com