Posted on 12/30/2005 4:00:58 AM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
There's something else, too. His article implies that all country music all over the country is the same. Due to a bad-weather airplane flight re-routed to Atlanta, I had to drive through Georgia and Alabama to get to Destin, Florida in the middle of the night. I listed to country music as the stations faded in and out. Every play list was completely different. And I didn't hear any of the songs I regularly heard on my country stations in New England. Media giants? Consolidation? I didn't hear it.
No bias here...
Citing the "public outcry," Cox and Cumulus quickly issued a directive to local programmers not to play the band on their hundreds of stations; Clear Channel "advised" its 1,200 affiliates to "pay attention to their listeners." Before long, DJs were holding events where listeners could throw their old albums in a bonfire or run them over with a tractor.
First, "Paying attention to your listeners" is not the same as "directing" them to take the band off the rotation. Second, since when is pleasing your consumers "censorship"?
Blacklisting the Chicks was an easy way for the media behemoths--run by some of Bush's biggest financial backers--to demonstrate their patriotism on the eve of the war.
Huh? Who in the heck are they talking about?
But the Chicks are still feeling the aftershocks. Two years after the incident, Home hadn't yet moved 7 million copies, and the band was reinventing itself as a pop act. For the rest of the industry, the message was clear: Shut up if you want to sing.
The actual message is: Do not piss off your paying audience if you want to continue to make money. As far as "Home" not selling anymore, the Chicks have released a couple more albums since then. One would assume the record label would put it's marketing dollars towards selling the new product.
Honestly, I bought "Home" before all this crap happened. It was good music with tight harmonies. I didn't buy any subsequent DC recordings mostly because they sucked in comparison. The fact that I don't listen to them at all now is the result of Maines' big mouth.
Hey, everybody, listen up. This post came from _In These Times_ , a journal of opinion once associated with the Communist Party, U.S.A. With no more Soviet Union to cozy up to, In These Times has evolved into a kind of soft Marxism, like The Nation magazine. They believe that class determines one's politics, and are permanently baffled that working class and country folks tend to be overwhelmingly conservative and pro-American. They are always searching for `progressives' among the proletariat, just like this writer.
I live near Nashville, so the article is truly hilarious. These people actually think that The Revolution is just over the horizon, if we will all just try to `build a better world'.
Hey `comrades'! Marx, Lenin, and Mao are still dead!
Interestingly enough, the term "jingoism" was coined by the early 20th century author John Dos Passos, who was at the time, a dedicated socialist and Communist sympathizer. Later in life, he became a Conservative, and a frequent contributor to National Review.
I'm a minion.
You're a minion.
Wouldn't you like to be a minion, too?
J. D.'s Words of wisdom:
Country Rocks......
But, Bluegrass Rules!
In These Times is a real far-left publication. I'm sorry, "progressive". In short anything that slanders the U.S.and paints a rosy picture of our enemies is just fine with these Marxist losers. Their motto should be : "9/11?- we deserved it".
Damnitboy!
No Way!
This idiot must moonlight as a consultant for the DNC. What a biased piece of garbage.
Listen to more "Asleep At The Wheel".
Excellent!
HA!
If I owned my own radio station, I would play:
Bob Wills
Ray Price
Johnny Bush
Buck Owens
Merle Haggard
George Jones
Willie Nelson (Everything Before "On the Road Again")
Faron Young
Louvin Bros.
Webb Pierce
Red Steagall
Earnest Tubb
That is Country Music.
It doesn't? I thought Tequila was a universal solvent for garments of all kinds! :-)
"In these times" is probably the most red rag of all times. Wasn't it recently privately funded from oblivion? Still it's always amusing to read what serious leftists believe to be true.
"The "boot in your ass" song is crass."
Crass perhaps but very effective and hits the nail right on the head. Whenever this comes on in the car, the windows get rolled down and the volume turned up loud and that's with my husband in the car. If it's the kids we sing at the top of our lungs. Nothing wrong with showing your patriotism even if it is "crass". Do the same thing when the noonhour National Anthem is played only I don't sing because I'm crying.
Patriotism is civilized and polite, knowing that emphasizing "ass-kicking" is hardly the best way to love one's country. Nationalism, however...
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