"David" wrote in message
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''Plausible deniablilty." I don't trust Texans. Used to live there.

Claim: Clear Channel Communications banned their American radio
stations from playing specified songs in order to avoid offending
listeners.

Status: False.

Correct. There was a list put together by ONE of the PDs and sent to other
PDs to prevent embarassment in the aftermath of 9/11. This was not
censorship, but prudence and a desire not to offend Americans following
9/11.

There was never a list issued from Clear Channel corporate offices, and no
dictate to not play songs. Just some PDs exchanging some lists of tunes that
might be wise to play with caution or not at all in that difficult time.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]


Those of you in the Thought Police will find the following
encouraging. Others of you might find it troubling:

In response to Tuesday's terrorist attacks, Clear Channel, the world's
largest radio network, has sent out a list of some 150 "lyrically
questionable" songs by everyone from the Animals to the Zombies which
it has banned its stations from playing. Some songs are overtly
violent in their intent, but the majority simply contain metaphorical
language or narrative aspects that connect uncomfortably with the
tragedy.

Again, the list was sent out to the rock PDs by one of the PDs who took the
time to think about sensitivities and analyzed every song that might be
questinable. There was not ban, no censorship. Just boradcasters doing thier
job of measuring what the public wanted to hear and what was, at the time,
inappropriate.

Accordingly, a program director at Clear Channel Communications (an
organization which operates over 1,170 radio stations in the United
States), after discussions with program directors at several of Clear
Channel Radio's stations, compiled an advisory list of songs which
stations might wish to avoid playing in the short term:

Exactly. Not a ban, not censorship, just good common sense.