Friday, January 14, 2011
This Song Is Banned In Canada
From Michelle Malkin: The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits’ 1980s hit Money for Nothing is too offensive for Canadian radio.
The ruling, released Wednesday, was in response to a complaint against St. John’s radio station CHOZ-FM. The listener complained that the word faggot – which appears three times in the song is “extremely offensive” to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
The council is an independent body created by Canadian radio and television broadcasters to review the standards of their content.
But the radio is not taking the situation laying down:
“We’re not afraid of repercussions. We have never had a complaint in the 25 years we have played the song,” K97 Music Director Todd James told FOX411. “We will play it in its entirety and unedited as we have always done and if someone wants to file a complaint we will take it from there.”
But K97 may be alone.
Most Canadian radio stations that play rock music have been bombarded with phone calls from listeners unhappy about the ban of the quarter-century old Dire Straits hit— still, despite the many complaints, the majority of stations don’t plan to break the rules and broadcast the forbidden tune like the Edmonton station.
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/14/money-for-nothing/
This is the crap that happens when you impose nonsense like the Fairness Doctrine. It's liberalism run amok.
Second, with my apologies to my Canadian readers, but rulings like this make Canadians look like fools. A song is banned 25 years after release?
Third, have any songs been banned in Canada because they mock Christians? Probably not. Was this song banned in Canada?
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