according to ClearChannel's west coast HQ, the list is only a recommended list, to help the DJ's avoid rubbing salt in the wounds. Ultimately the decisions are left to the local managers. In any case, it includes such subversive titles as "What a Wonderful World" (irony) and "Ruby Tuesday" (Tuesday) and "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (Planes), "New York, New York" (New York), and "Mack the Knife" (?). But it does not include the Cure's "Killing an Arab". A strange oversight.
jundai
ClearChannel, one of the biggest owner and operator of radio networks in
the country, has already instituted a list of banned songs on its own
initiative, not even bothering to wait for the DOJ to give it a figleaf.
The ditties deemed too subversive to be played include such
hate-mongering, anti-American tunes as "99 red balloons" by Nena. Go
figure. More details can be found here:
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/18/1228210.shtml
