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'Money for Nothing' slur inappropriate, council says


Showbiz | 207971 hits | Aug 31 10:33 am | Posted by: Strutz
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The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says it should be up to individual radio stations to decide whether they want to play unedited versions of Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing."

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  1. by Canadian_Mind
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:05 pm
    Nice to see some sanity in the beaurocracy...

  2. by avatar raydan
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:12 pm
    This again.

  3. by avatar DanSC
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:13 pm
    Whenever I've heard this song on the radio, the word in question is censored or changed to something like yuppie.
    The council also noted that that panel that banned the song was not aware that alternative versions of the song without the word "f****t" have been available since 1985. My own censoring

    Way to do your research guys.

  4. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:25 pm
    Freedom of speech, eh?

  5. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:28 pm
    Britain, what the hell has happened to your sense and sensibility?

  6. by avatar Gunnair Gold Member
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:29 pm
    "BartSimpson" said
    Freedom of speech, eh?


    Are rap songs with 'nigger' allowed on mainstream radio?

  7. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:33 pm
    Mr. Clemens books are banned from schools because of the word nigger. You have to wonder when the terms Jock, Paddy, or Taffy(Trog) are going to be deemed inappropriate.

  8. by avatar Gunnair Gold Member
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:51 pm
    "ShepherdsDog" said
    Mr. Clemens books are banned from schools because of the word nigger. You have to wonder when the terms Jock, Paddy, or Taffy(Trog) are going to be deemed inappropriate.


    I do. Sometimes I think it should happen and soon. I can go to work and tell a joke in an Irish accent and get some laughs. Do it in a native or East Indian accent and watch out.

    Some groups are fair game, some groups are not.

  9. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:53 pm
    "Gunnair" said
    Freedom of speech, eh?


    Are rap songs with 'nigger' allowed on mainstream radio?

    Yes, but only if a black person says it. Go figure.

  10. by avatar Gunnair Gold Member
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:11 pm
    "BartSimpson" said
    Freedom of speech, eh?


    Are rap songs with 'nigger' allowed on mainstream radio?

    Yes, but only if a black person says it. Go figure.

    Really? So your average FM station plays songs with 'nigger' in them or are you referring to satellite?

  11. by avatar 1Peg
    Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:17 pm
    Maybe gayrod would be more fitting?

  12. by Lemmy
    Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:47 am
    What's "inappropriate" is untalented, cardboard, tight-ass bureaucrats evaluating art.

  13. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Thu Sep 01, 2011 1:24 am
    some self proclaimed artists don't have much of a grasp on the idea either.

  14. by Batsy
    Sun Sep 04, 2011 6:09 pm
    "ShepherdsDog" said
    Britain, what the hell has happened to your sense and sensibility?


    What's this story got to do with Britain? The story concerns Canada.



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