Do a little research, man. Clear Channel denied this, and even posted a luke-warm press release about it. Do a simple search at groups.google.com , you'll see about a thousand different messages in different forums where this was discussed.
I'm not saying it's a hoax, but there's a lot more to the story (or a lot less) than the month-old message you circulated. Better luck next time... -- Greg On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:42:59AM -0700, Optimizzin Al-gorithm wrote: > > http://michaelmoore.com/2001_0922.html : > > ... He passed on to me a confidential memo from the radio conglomerate > that > owns his station: Clear Channel, the company that has bought up 1,200 > stations altogether -- 247 of them in the nation's 250 largest radio > markets -- and that not only dominates the Top 40 format, but controls > 60% of all rock-radio listening. > > The company has ordered its stations not to play a list of 150 songs > during this "national emergency." The list, incredibly, includes "Bridge > > Over Troubled Water," "Peace Train," and John Lennon's "Imagine." > > > [ Ed note: they should have included Brian Eno's BURNING AIRLINES GIVE > YOU SO MUCH MORE. They got Talking Head's BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE > but not LIFE DURING WARTIME.] > > > > === > > http://michaelmoore.com/mirrors/banned_songs_list1.htm > > > From: Independent Media Center > http://radio.indymedia.org:8081 > > Songs banned on corporate radio Tuesday 18 Sep 2001 > author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > summary > Another Gathering of Judgment Calls in the Wake of Disaster September > 14, 2001 ..
