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Clear Channel Communications is a corporation based out of San Antonio, Texas. It deals largely in outdoor advertising and radio broadcasting.[1] The company also has strong sympathies with the American Right-Wing.

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[edit] Holdings

In the United States, Clear Channel exists in the top 50 markets, and then some. They own and operate Premiere Radio, which provides Wingnut welfare for various loudmouths.

[edit] "We want the airwaves"

  • After one of the Dixie Chicks declared Dubya made them ashamed to be from Texas, their music mysteriously vanished from Clear Channel’s stations.[2] But, you know, Liberal media.

[edit] 2001 Clear Channel Memorandum

A few days after the 9/11 attacks, the top brass at Clear Channel apparently sent an email to over 1,000 US radio stations "an updated and expanded list of songs with 'questionable lyrics' that they should avoid playing."[3] Clear Channel denied the claim, but it received considerable media coverage at the time.

The question was not that there'd be kinds of music that would be inappropriate in the advent of the attacks, but the specific songs Clear Channel ultimately chose. It seemed more like an 60s-style social conservative attack on popular rock music than an understandable suggestions list. The particularly ironic tunes are listed below.

So, yeah. Five points for effort, Clear Channel?

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. Clear Channel: About Us From their website.
  2. Dixie Chicks Axed by Clear Channel, Jacksonville Business Journal.
  3. "It's the End of the World as Clear Channel Knows It." Slate. 2001 September 17.
  4. Totally.
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