If it ain’t pro-war, it ain’t on country radio

[RamboLiberal]

Country music artists are hardly united in their support of the war in Iraq — but you’d never know it from listening to the radio.

While Toby Keith, Darryl Worley and Charlie Daniels have scored hits with patriotic, war-themed songs, others such as Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Nanci Griffith released anti-war, or at least questioning, songs that went nowhere.

“Country radio does enough research that they understand listeners are supportive of the military in Iraq and just don’t want to get involved with those songs,” said John Hart, president of Nashville-based Bullseye Marketing Research.

“I work with 32 stations, and I have not seen one test any of these anti-war songs.”

But the patriotic tunes that were everywhere at the beginning of the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq have slowed. John Michael Montgomery’s touching “Letters from Home” is the only current chart hit with a war theme, and it is neither an angry call to arms nor a love letter to America.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5174757/

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[donhakman]

2. With due respect wirenut

demographics hardly apply here. Clear Channel has cornered 75% of the AM radio stations in the USA. Republican owned and operated, there are directives to never play certain songs, writers, and groups.

Among others, John Lennon, Dixie Chicks and even Willy Nelson are persona non grata at Clear Channel.
Its all "phoned in" by computer with no one at the stations for hours on end.

FCC has rules that a commercial radio license has provisions such as tending to public service such as warning the public about a railroad accident spilling tons of poison gas in your town. Well that did happen and no one was at the Clear Channel stations to give a warning.
Dozens of familes lost loved ones without a public warning.

Monopolies tell the FCC what to do and not do. But say bullshit and get a 250,000 dollar fine.

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