"The censoring of the Dixie Chicks was only the most extreme example of how media consolidation is killing country music."
Killing country music? How's that square with the author's first sentence in this piece, "Country music is the nation's most popular genre--with nearly twice as many stations devoted to it than any other."
This dim bulb is so brain dead he can't keep a logical train of thought through one article.
Sour grapes and a typical liberal aversion to all things patriotic, nothing more, nothing less
The author is an idiot. His article doesn't even square with his article.... the first line contradicts everything else. He also has no clue what the definition of censrship is.
The killing country music part is downright funny. And the author is behind the times. There really hasn't been a topical, pro-military country hit since Toby Keith's "American Soldier" (and HE's a dem). Yes, there's an undercurrent, just as there is for christianity, but most of the time, it's not blatant.
Gretchen Wilson changed everything. Now all the artists in Nashville are trying to be the kind of "playful redneck" that she and her Muzik Mafia cohorts have portrayed.
But, living here, I can tell you that there ARE plenty of liberals in country music. But most of them work in the office buildings downtown. Except for Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson, few artists have the clout to be openly liberal - and Dolly does it under the umbrella of liberal Christianity.
This author is full of it.