govt-licensed broadcaster bans songs

[Greg Newby]

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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