The List of Songs Banned By CCC After 9/11

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Clear Channel Communications, now known as iHeart Media sent out a list of songs to their stations to be removed from playlists in the aftermath of the attacks.


A few of the 165 songs on that list were John Lennon’s Imagine, a song about peace and love; Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, an anti-war anthem; and Van Halen’s remake of Dancin’ in the Streets, Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World and anything by Rage Against the Machine.


The full list is here if you want to peruse it. It’s a disturbing chapter because in 2001, Clear Channel operated the largest number of radio stations in the country. While this wasn’t governmental censorship, it was a clear case of corporate censorship and shows the dangers of concentrated media ownership.




www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3dvbM6Pias


www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxk3c_SbWMg
 

SLM

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Clear Channel Communications, now known as iHeart Media sent out a list of songs to their stations to be removed from playlists in the aftermath of the attacks.


A few of the 165 songs on that list were John Lennon’s Imagine, a song about peace and love; Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, an anti-war anthem; and Van Halen’s remake of Dancin’ in the Streets, Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World and anything by Rage Against the Machine.


The full list is here if you want to peruse it. It’s a disturbing chapter because in 2001, Clear Channel operated the largest number of radio stations in the country. While this wasn’t governmental censorship, it was a clear case of corporate censorship and shows the dangers of concentrated media ownership.




www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3dvbM6Pias


www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxk3c_SbWMg

From your link:

Snopes.com did research on the subject and concluded that the list did exist as a suggestion for radio stations but noted that it was not an outright ban on the songs in question
So it would seem you are perpetuating misinformation.
 

Locutus

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and he should be bright enough to have known what he posted was bullsh!t.
 

SLM

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and he should be bright enough to have known what he posted was bullsh!t.

It's one thing when something is posted and is wrong and the proof comes from those who research it elsewhere further.

But when the exact antithesis of the title of the thread exists within the OP? That drives me nuts.
 

Locutus

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This was just a suggested list. Of course anyone who worked at CCC understood that this suggestion was not optional..........


yeah...we all know that and have done for years. so has snopes

"a Clear Channel program director took it upon himself to identify a number of songs that certain markets or individuals may find insensitive today. This was not a mandate, nor was the list generated out of the corporate radio offices. It was a grassroots effort that was apparently circulated among program directors. "


a smaller list of questionable songs was originally generated by the corporate office, but an overzealous regional executive began contributing suggestions and circulating the list via e-mail, where it continued to grow.


Other than some rather questionable choices of songs, the only thing remarkable about this list is that so many sensation-hungry news outlets have attempted to spin it as an outrageous mandate by Clear Channel to "ban" certain songs from the airwaves.


as was pointed out, 'banned' doesn't appear anywhere in your little wiki link. it doesn't even appear in the ridiculous daily kos prog rant you plagiarized (without so much as a source link) the text of your post from.



again, what's your point of the intentionally misleading OP title?

if you're gonna fukk around then maybe throw your sh!t into the alternative theories section or maybe not even post it all all.

pretty lazy troll pal.
 

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They banned Imagine?????

That makes it almost worth it.


Disclaimer: Personally, I love the Beatles.........and I wouldn't ban anything. :)

And I hated Imagine 10 years before Ben Shapiro was born.