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.]
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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@lists.tao.ca
summary Another Gathering of Judgment Calls in the Wake of Disaster September 14, 2001
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