<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Tahoma</param>This time without
the misplaced code....
In the interest of broadening the perspective, here is an article from the NY Times on
the whole
Clear Channel list debacle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/arts/music/19POPL.html?ex=1001895812&ei=1&en=2e0d16964ae0c1ea
As much as I think Clear Channel's practices singularly symbolize the trouble with the
music biz
today, it is unfair to completely blame the corporate office for one person's zeal:
"A Clear Channel spokeswoman emphasized that the list was not a mandate or
order to radio programmers. In a statement, the company said the list came not
from the corporate offices but from 'a grass-roots effort that was apparently
circulated among program directors.'
"Others in the Clear Channel network, speaking on condition of anonymity, told a
more complicated story. They said that a smaller list of questionable songs was
originally generated by the corporate office, but an overzealous regional executive
began contributing suggestions and circulating the list via e-mail, where it
continued to grow.
It would certainly be interesting to see what the original smaller list had on it
It's also funny that the spokeswoman classified it as "grass roots"...
Brenda
n.p.: k.d. lang - "Diet of Strange Places"
<FontFamily><param>Arial</param>On 19 Sep 2001, at 10:41, Janene Otten wrote:
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> I thinking out loud and writing it down. Hope
y'all don't mind. I heard that
> most Clear Channel station DJ's are ignoring the request. Thank goodness for
> that. My company is now owned by Clear Channel and no matter how you slice
> it, one corporation owning over a thousand stations is NOT a good thing for
> radio. Even if one company owned 100 stations it would still be a drag. As
> soon as the words music and industry were paired we could no longer call
> music our own.
> I just looked up the meaning of grass roots in Webster's dictionary. 1.
> Ordinary citizens esp. as contrasted with the leadership or elite 2. the
> origin or basis of something
> I thought it intersting that grass roots refers to ORDINARY CITIZENS and
> also THE ORIGIN or BASIS. </color>
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