[Austin-ghetto-list] unclear channel

[Jon Ford]

Good point, Bill!  Also a good reason to listen to (over the Internet, if 
need be) and support  underground and listener subscriber radio 
stations--the mainstream US media is thoroughly co-opted, a megaphone for 
Bush-speak at present.

Jon

>From: "Bill Irwin" <billi@aloha.net>
>To: "Harry Edwards" <hedwards@gstype.com>
>CC: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: Re: [Austin-ghetto-list] unclear channel
>Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:38:02 -1000
>
>Is Bin Ladin on the board of directors?  I know he hates this kind of
>decadent Western music so no wonder it is banned.  Seems like the Texas
>fundamentalists are joining hands with their Muslim counterparts.  Item by
>item we are meeting his demands; ban music, suspend habeas corpus, restrict
>freedoms, ruin the economy, sow distrust amongst the people, etc.  What's
>next?
>Bill
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Harry Edwards <hedwards@gstype.com>
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 10:02 AM
>Subject: [Austin-ghetto-list] unclear channel
>
>
> >
> > This just retrieved from the NY Times web site:
> >
> > lear Channel Communications, the Texas-based company that owns about 
>1,170
> > radio stations nationwide, has circulated a list of 150 songs and asked
>its
> > stations to avoid playing them because of the attacks on the World Trade
> > Center and the Pentagon.
> >
> > Some listed songs would be insensitive to play right now, such as the 
>Gap
> > Band's "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" and Soundgarden's "Blow Up the Outside
> > World," but other choices, critics and musicians say, are less 
>explicable
> > because they have little literal connection to the tragedies.
> >
> > These include "Ticket to Ride" by the Beatles, "On Broadway" by the
> > Drifters and "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John. Even odder, some songs
>on
> > the list are patriotic, like Neil Diamond's "America." Others speak of
> > universal optimism, like Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World," and
> > others are emotional but hopeful songs that could help people grieve, 
>like
> > "Imagine" by John Lennon, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and
> > Garfunkel, "Peace Train" by Cat Stevens and "A World Without Love" by
>Peter
> > and Gordon.
> >
> >
> > Come on back, Jive 95!
> >
> > Harry
> >
> >
>
>


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