Anyone hear the Networks talking about the Dixie Chicks success today?

[onehandle]

Faux, CNN, CBS, MSGOP? Any Network?

Go and vote up the thread below in LBN. I want Freepers passing by the front page to bite our collective asses.

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[Sadie5]

1. Not much

CNN had something about a week ago on the Chicks. No matter how much they want them to fail it is not working.

[slor]

2. Why do you hate America?

You know damn good and well that their album is selling so briskly, because the Taliban is buying it, per OBL's orders.

[DrDan]

3. they are scheduled for Larry King tonight

[blm]

4. The spin I have noticed is "Chicks politics making money for them" and

cynically implying THAT is the reason they did it - as a manipulative PR move.

See - it's the same media tactic applied to any political message from a musician or a lawmaker - Republicans are authentic and Democrats are calculating.

[underpants]

7. Okay how's this for a manipulative PR move?

Be careful before you click on this. Seriously take a deep breath...okay exhale...okay go ahead

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[onehandle]

8. Bletch! nt

[blm]

9. Wouldn't you cry if you knew you were married to the asshole who refused

to read the Hart Rudman Report on Global Terror that was handed to him on Jan 30, 2001?

They KNOW the OTHER GUY - Al Gore - would have read that report the day it was handed to him, and implemented its urgent proposals for homeland security. There would have been no event like 9-11 if they hadn't stolen the White House.

[underpants]

11. Actually every airport security measure that has been implemented

since 9/11 was first suggested by a Gore lead commission back in '96 or '98. Hart Rudman further promoted them but they were all ignored as was everything else.

You can look this up but I would swear by it. Gore's commission/panel suggesting having extra security review be done for anyone who receives mail at more than one address or location (like a PO box as well as a street address) this was summarily rejected by Republicans as being too "big brother" just like the medical cards were when Hillary first mentioned them 14 years ago.

[blm]

13. I know - I'm familiar with it, I followed terrorism issue since 1996.

People would pretty much ignore me when I tried to tell them about the Taliban in Afghanistan, too. Kerry published in 97 a book warning about the growing threat of global terrorism - Al Qaeda was just forming at the time the book came out.

This country and the world would have been a completely different place if the rest of DC listened more closely to Gore and Kerry. For some disgusting reason, true world policy visionaries are treated like bigger targets for scorn than the blow-dried demagogues and crooks.

[underpants]

14. Resistance to change

I probably should be more weary of the Dems doing this than I am what with all the times something or someone was been served up an a plate for them and they take a pass.

The Republicans for all their carefully crafted message are exposing themselves on this repeatedly.

I think that actual effective change is dismissed as it would expose the cocktail circuit as being nothing more than just that. If they start actually governing the ones who have no interest in it will be shown to be useless sponges. So they elect leaders who perpetuate the system as is.

[Samantha]

17. The lobbyists for the airlines beat down Gore's recommendations

Airlines would have had to raise tickets $5.00 each in order to pay for the extra security measures ....

In light of the subsequent belly-ups the airlines have experienced, I wonder if any of the CEOs have taken a moment to reconsider whether they should have bit the bullet so to speak and raised the tickets five bucks.

One thing for sure, if the airline executives had listened to Gore instead of supporting Bush*, I wager we would not had to fight a war for oil, and airlines would not be suffering from the high cost of gasoline they are now experiencing....

[dipsydoodle]

5. Do the networks normally mention

which CDs are selling the fastest as a matter of routine ? When did they last, for example , mention Red Hot Chili Pepper's Stadium Arcadium?

[onehandle]

6. They've been reporting for years that their careers are over.

This is about political "controversy", and CD sales. The networks mated these subjects years ago.

I'm want to know if they are interested now that the Chicks are at #1.

[Ammonium]

10. Hardly a PR move with Clear Channel black lists you

Meaning that 95% of radio stations in the country won't play your songs.

[AndyTiedye]

12. 95% of Radio Stations Wouldn't Play the Grateful Dead Either

Didn't stop them from being one of the most successful bands ever.

[Ammonium]

15. True

But the Dead sang about drugs in a time when radio had not yet fully shifted from AM to FM. Psychodelic rock was still very faux pas then and thus never got any radio play. Zeppelin and the like recieved similar treatment, even The Beatles were at first not premitted on the radio due to their song content. The Dixie chicks songs however, have been for the most part sans any politcal/drug/sexual content. The Dixie Chicks just happen to speak out about Bush and they're black listed.

[underpants]

16. Well I think there is another group that fits into this too

Pearl Jam

Totally off subject so excuse me.

Pearl Jam doesn't get played on the radio anymore either seeing as they won't ape for a camera and make videos but their album was at the top of the charts a few weeks ago too.

As bad as ClearChannel's death grip is it can be avoided.