It seems that the wheels that make the government go round and round here in Canada are getting a good oiling from outraged citizens after the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council decision to effectively ban Money for Nothing.
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms album artwork
The precedent setting ruling stated that due to one complainant, a gay and lesbian rights supporter in Newfoundland, the award-winning 1985 classic rock hit be pulled from the airwaves in its unedited form.
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Tagged Alan Gribben, Canada, Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CBSC, censorship, CRTC, Dire Straits, Dire Straits Banned, Education, Faggot, Gladd, Hate Speach, History, Huckleberry Finn, Injun, Mark Knopfler, Mark Twain, Money for Nothing (song), MTV, Nigger, Revisionism, Tom Sawyer, United States
It’s a dark day for music lovers in Canada. This week the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council announced that a hit from the mid 1980’s has been deemed unfit for broadcast on Canadian radio stations.
Money For Nothing
The classic rock song in question is Money For Nothing, by British rockers Dire Straits. The ruling states that due to a complaint from a listener of CHOZ-FM in St. Johns, Newfoundland an investigation was launched based on his outrage of hearing the word faggot three times in the twenty-five year old song.
The word faggot has apparently become a lightning rod as the council states in the official ruling that even if the word was at one time acceptable it has evolved and become unacceptable in most circumstances in today’s society.
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Tagged Banned Music, Bill Flanagan, Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, Canadian Values, censorship, CHOZ-FM, Defiance, Dire Straits, Dire Straits Banned, Don't Stand So Close to Me, Jerry Springer, Jimmy Swaggart, K-97, K-97 Edmonton, Lola, Lou Reed, Mark Knopfler, Money For Nothing, Money for Nothing (song), Money For Nothing Banned, Murder By Numbers, Rick Mercer, Scott Thompson, Speak Against Censorship, St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador, Sting, Take a Walk on the Wild Side, The Kinks, Voltaire
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