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  1. Originally posted by Rique Howard Stern was making Clear Channel plenty of money but I guess politics won out. No, business still won. CC stood to lose a lot of money with Stern. He was a huge liability for them once the FCC started clamping down.
  2. Originally posted by Jotown And I am not a Chix fan, but a fan of free speech and someone who is very much against McCarthyistic tactics against any one. I hate to say this Lee but you have gotten several facts wrong in this thread; yet you keep going back to your misconceptions about this story. Why is that? You're the one accusing the situation of having McCarthyistic tactics, when it's simply not true. Privately-owned stations are deciding what they will play. When a House commitee (pretty sure I butchered THAT spelling) is formed to investigate a possible red menace within the country music establishment, and subsequently coerce Nashville to not give work to certain sympathizers out of fear of legal action being taken against them by a government entity... THEN you can say it's McCarthyistic tactics. As long as it's simply privately-owned radio stations deciding what they will and will not play, it's nothing of the sort.
  3. Originally posted by Jotown Lee, you are missing the bigger point. That a small group of people could literally take away their only means of getting their music out and in effect taking away their ability to make a living is a big deal. The beatles thing was different because it was much broader in scope. This is a free speech issue at a time when free speech is being attacked and limited. I think that the reason so many news outlets are covering them is because it is news and they see it for what it is; a free speech issue. Also a good publicist doesn't hurt. How did this small group take away the DC's only means of getting their music out? Did they call up every studio owner in America and tell them not to let the Dixie Chicks record there? :confused:
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