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Post by Wycco on Mar 18, 2003 17:35:52 GMT -5
Whatsup with the Chicks?
I'm hearing some stores are removing their CDs from store shelves... their songs are being censored from the radio... and all sorts of bad PR for the Chicks...
Supposedly they said something anti-Bush.
But I've not heard what they alledgedly said... was it really that bad?
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Post by Topcontender on Mar 18, 2003 20:31:44 GMT -5
The lead singer made a comment like "not everyone from texas is screwed up and we are not proud of our president."
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Post by JWK on Mar 19, 2003 0:19:05 GMT -5
...so much for freedom of speach  |
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Post by Danny Boy on Mar 19, 2003 1:40:07 GMT -5
and the Land of the free  |
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Post by Wycco on Mar 19, 2003 9:02:19 GMT -5
Thats All?  Thats what this whole- censor the Dixie Chicks movement is about? I'm tempted to go out and buy a CD in protest of the protests... LOL- they're coming to Greenville in a few weeks- I like the chicks- maybe I should buy a ticket to the concert in protest of the protest too! |
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Post by Topcontender on Mar 19, 2003 10:20:25 GMT -5
Tehy are country music singers. It is not very smart to blast a Republican if you are in country music
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Post by Henrik on Mar 19, 2003 10:41:42 GMT -5
How rediculous is that!
Then again, if you have people who start saying Freedom Fries instead of French Fries, I suppose why not.
However, the whole boycotting thing is in my opinion rediculous, and shows yet again why people will consider the US as arrogant. Because a majority of the world's population do not agree with the actions of the US, the citizens there should then begin to boycot products from France. How the hell is that supposed to help in working things out? Or is it really the, If you are not with us you will suffer the consequences" attitude? If so, how can anybody wonder why Americans are not very popular in the world?
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Post by Wycco on Mar 19, 2003 13:56:33 GMT -5
Oh dear!!!
Greenville does seem to breed trouble makers... what with that racist Jessie Jackson- and now- the Limbaugh wannabe, far right talkshow host ,Mike Gallagher (started his career here in Greenville and now has a several hundred station franchise based out of NY)...
Turns out Mike Gallagher is going to host a protest concert here in Greenville on May 1st- same day the Chicks will be here... He already has country legend Charlie Daniels signed up... the concert is going to be in protest of the Dixie Chicks with all proceeds going to family members of the military!
There are also talks, if he can organise it, to hold a protest concert at as many cities the Dixie Chicks are going to this year as he can (on the same day, naturally)!
Its funny- I remember when Gallagher was just a local talk show host- he was fairly moderate- when he got his multi-station franchise he started going far-right, the way of Rush Limbaugh (actually he even further to the right now!)... my guess is that this is all for the ratings!
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Post by Cine_Man on Mar 20, 2003 15:54:38 GMT -5
Well, Y not? [sarcasm ala CFF] Money all spends the same, and if it happens to be profiteering, whats the difference? [sarcasm off, I think]
WalMart pulled all of Sheryl Crow's product from their shelves when she sang of kids blowing each other away with guns they had purchased at that chain of stores. So I naturally went out and bought as many as I could find. Sheryl CD's that is. I think I'm done with firearms (spero!)
Kineticman
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Post by Topcontender on Jul 9, 2003 15:01:03 GMT -5
WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- During a Senate hearing on radio consolidation, senators grilled a radio industry executive about his decision to pull the songs Their music was banned by two music station networks after Ms. Maines criticized U.S. actions in Iraq. country band the Dixie Chicks from the air for a month. Senators also heard comments from an advertising industry executive, John Mandel, co-CEO of media services agency MediaCom, who told the Senate Commerce Committee today that radio consolidation has dramatically pushed up ad prices far above levels that competitive markets would allow. Sharp questions The committee's chairman, John McCain, R-Ariz., sharply questioned Cumulus Media CEO Lewis W. Dickey Jr. if he felt his decision ban the Dixie Chicks from all of Cumulus' country music stations demonstrated the political danger present in having too few owners of the nation's media. The country trio's lead singer, Natalie Maines, in a concert in England just prior to the start of the war in Iraq, told the crowd: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The group is also from Texas. Her comments caused a furor among some country music fans, and radio stations organized boycotts. Ms. Maine's later issued an apology. Mr. Dickey defended his decision, saying Cumulus had pulled the songs only on its country music stations, and that the decision had come as a result of a "hue and cry" from local listeners and requests for local programmers for direction. 'Total contradiction' Sen. McCain said that while individual stations have the right to pull songs, the decision by Cumulus (as well as by all stations of another media company, Cox Radio) to pull songs was a "total contradiction" of statements made by media executives that they were serving local markets. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., suggested Mr. Dickey's decision smacked of Nazism and McCarthyism rather than of free speech. ------------------------------------------- What right does the fed gov have telling a owner of a company what he can play. If a man wants to take a risk by not playing the DCs then that is his right. Instead we get a witch hunt where Senators are telling the stations what they can play. What is next are the Senators going to give us all a play list? My god now the Feds want intervention in what a radio station says or plays. Hell with this if a senator gets bad mouthed, he can put the radio station out of business. WHAT CRAP!!!  |
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Post by Wycco on Jul 9, 2003 15:24:56 GMT -5
TC,
This whole issue has got me seething... not that I really care what happens to the Chicks that much... but that people are stooping to the level of trying to destroy people who don't agree with them politically... Are we really that backwards- what happened to intelligent-poltical discourse, debate, and... well politics.
I think it is ludicrous- how so many people jumped on the bandwagon of trying to destroy the careers of anyone who had a differing political opinion than that of their own.
Clowns such as Rush Limbaugh have slowly been turning the right into a circus of hate mongering, over zealous, uncouth mob that think it is OK to physically and verbally abuse anyone who tries to disagree with them.
There are very few reasonable clear-headed right-wing politicans left in this country... and I think that is a shame- because financially- I think we need the right-wing to keep the nation afloat.
Instead we are stuck with a McArthyist Right wing- that are rightwing because it's currently cool to bash the left and utter "loaded words" such as traitors and "un-American".
Thus- some Chick (pun intended) makes an anti-Bush comment- and the entire right wing of the nation is screaming for blood. There are people who would like to see her in jail for "treason" for disagreeing with their political opinion.
1984 is knocking at America's door. Although I consider myself slightly right of center- I find myself hoping the left sweeps the polls at the next election to keep the American-right honest.
I do think America is dangerously close to far-right extremism taking hold. Both in the Religious- and political sense.
The damning of someone who speaks out against a conservative president... and the lack of outrage against the people damning them- shows that America is ripe for a totalitarian coup.
Nonetheless, with all that said. -and that tyrade aside... I do happen to agree with you. If a station wants to take the immoral- but legal steps to destroy the career of someone who doesn't see eye-to-eye with them politically... they do have that right.
Government has absolutely no right to tell private corporations, and radio stations what they can and cannot play!
This is just a sign of the left stooping down to the same low level as the right on this issue.
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Post by Srrh on Jul 9, 2003 15:45:04 GMT -5
If a station wants to take the immoral- but legal steps to destroy the career of someone who doesn't see eye-to-eye with them politically... they do have that right. I agree...as long as "immoral" is the opperative word in that sentence. If a company CEO want to be seen as intolerant close minded biggots...they have every right to. But gov. shoud get out of that....true... Now, if the DC want to sue, let a judge hear it... S. |
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Post by Topcontender on Jul 10, 2003 14:51:46 GMT -5
Ahh but do the DCs have a case. Nobody has the right to have thier song played on the radio. just becuase you have wrote a song doesn't mean you are should get radio play.
Plus, those companies that play those songs have to pay royalties to the bands.
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