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Dixie Chicks come of age during media exile (more whining re Free Republic)
The Star Phoenix ^
| September 14, 2006
| Katherine Monk
Posted on 10/08/2006 12:35:00 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert
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My apologies if this has been previously posted. I'm sure we've all read enough about the Dixie Chicks to last us a lifetime, but some of their comments in this article, regarding Free Republic, sound like out-and-out lies to me. (See bold print.)
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
>in the face of an offhand remark
It was no big deal. /s
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:37:16 PM PDT
by
CAWats
(Post to Free Republic without knowing HTML. Click my name.)
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
That's funny. I don't remember getting any letter.
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:38:18 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(Do what you love and the ridicule will follow.)
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
"According to the research done by Kopple and the Chicks themselves, the Free Republic sent out form letters to their 30,000-thick subscription list with market-specific information, saying if the station did not stop playing their music, they would cease listening to the station."
Well, I'm upset. I didn't get my letter. What am I, chopped liver?
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:38:51 PM PDT
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: Past Your Eyes
Oh, that's right. I hadn't subscribed at that point. I was just a lurker.
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:39:03 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(Do what you love and the ridicule will follow.)
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
We don't need no stinking letters!
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:39:26 PM PDT
by
builder
(I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
The problem was how the whole anti-Chicks campaign was orchestrated by a select few through a right-wing Internet site called the Free Republic.
Here's a tissue, I wiped my a$$ with it but please cry on...
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:39:31 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
(.)
To: I still care
What am I, chopped liver? No....foie grais. [Ha-Ha, just kidding]
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:41:26 PM PDT
by
ExcursionGuy84
("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
According to the research done by Kopple and the Chicks themselves, the Free Republic sent out form letters to their 30,000-thick subscription list with market-specific information, saying if the station did not stop playing their music, they would cease listening to the station WHAT??? When did this happen?
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
Better to be mis-portrayed as a gorilla than a mouse.
We should feel flattered
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:42:15 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who are going senile.)
To: Hetty_Fauxvert; 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Brian Allen; cgk; ChadGore; ...
"Despite being the best-selling female act of all time,"
Does NOT pass the smell test.
Rock and Roll PING! email Weegee to get on/off this list (or grab it yourself to PING the rest)
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:42:43 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
“It turned us into women,” says Natalie Maines,...
***
That's good. Before you looked like a man. *Snort*
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
This article is absolutely hilarious.
So little ol Freerepublic slayed the Dixie Chicks despite the endless adulatory free press by their left wing media cheerleaders? Give me a break.
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:43:06 PM PDT
by
Maynerd
(Virtual Fence - only the tax dollars are real)
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
I didn't get one, either.
Jim, don't you love us?
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
Hey. Why am I not on the list? Why didn't I get this letter too?
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:45:39 PM PDT
by
dmw
(Aren't you glad you use common sense, don't you wish everybody did?)
To: Hetty_Fauxvert
Well, among other things, it fails to address a simple fact - live audiences do not turn up for their shows in numbers approaching previous participation - and this is not a choice of a DJ but the personal choice of those buying tickets. DC have had to cancel shows, and reduce the hall size of those bookings they do keep.
A second point not addressed - the media is very much of an anti-Bush slant, and yet with the - well, I won't use hype - say, the friendly treatment from the media, they still have lost a chunk of audience and income.
And they are still pushing the meme "It's their fault, not mine!" Doesn't sound too mature to me.
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:46:03 PM PDT
by
Fatuncle
(Of course I'm ignorant. I'm here to learn.)
To: Jim Robinson; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; ...
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
Libel against FR?
According to the research done by Kopple and the Chicks themselves, the Free Republic sent out form letters to their 30,000-thick subscription list with market-specific information, saying if the station did not stop playing their music, they would cease listening to the station
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:46:05 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Past Your Eyes
To: weegee
Despite being the best-selling female act of all timeMust...not...comment....
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posted on
10/08/2006 12:47:00 PM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
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