As someone who was doing college radio at the time and had friends who worked in commercial radio, this was the first time I (and a lot of folks my age) witnessed the scale of corporate censoring power possible when the right wanted to build support for war and silence any criticism.
Can’t let today go by without posting the funniest reaction to 9/11 and that’s the list of 164 songs deemed inappropriate to play that Clear Channel sent to its radio stations
How, exactly, was James Taylor's "Fire and Rain" such a threat to democracy or such a terrible sentiment after 9/11???
I think the key word of the day, every day, for these fanatiscists is "conflation."
