On 7/14/09 14:26 , David Eduardo wrote:

"dave" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:


I doubt anyone would play the drug reference song, as that would
likely fall under being outside community standards and subject a
station to a $325 thousand dollar per play fine.

Bull****. You can talk about drugs all you want. Get a grip.

There are some real practical limits... and they come to community
standards. A discussion of drug legalization is OK, while a person
giving instruction on how to best set up a bong might not.





As evidenced by the hundreds of millions in fines assessed against
radio since 1977 for Clapton's "Cocaine."


Or Johnny Cash's 'Cocaine Blues.'

Or Grateful Dead's 'Cocaine.'

Or the countless Cheech and Chong recordings that have hit the air since.

Please.

And then, there's Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" which contained the
phrase, '...all the funky **** going down in the city," when it hit the
air on radio stations in markets across the country, straight off the
album in April of 1977. I can speak with some confidence on this....I
played it myself on stations in markets from small town Iowa, to big
city Texas, through Missouri, Kansas and Illinois, over the years. It's
playing in Chicago now.

Also playing in Chicago, on Bonneville's WDRV, no less, is Pink
Floyd's "Money." Complete with 'that goody-good bull****,' in tact. Even
in morning drive.

Spoken word content has been cracked more than once. And jobs have
been lost, to be sure. But lyric content has been challenged, has been
taken to court, and has won in case after case.

You should have heard KDNA, St Louis, in its heyday. You'd have had a
klong where you sat.

How to set up a bong was tame by comparison to KDNA.