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Thread #36798   Message #512029
Posted By: GUEST,Skip Jones
21-Jul-01 - 01:10 PM
Thread Name: Ani DiFranco Song Censored on Letterman?
Subject: RE: Ani DiFranco Song Censored on Letterman?
I agree that media sucks... It's all owed my "Big Bucks" But it's not only letterman producers that "edit" content.

Folk Festivals often choose to stay away from "political activist singers"... Arts Councils choose for mass appeal... Record companies promote artist based on sex appeal and sales, not on good material.

Alas, with all our freedoms and powers we are a nation of sheep... We'll pay Letterman or some jock millions to run around with a ball, party with kids, do drugs (Green Bay Packers and others "great" athletes are known for this), and direct the economic growth of cities for their benefit and tax the people again.

We do won't support the people who would see this truly be a nation of Peace & Justice for All...

Use it up, waist, steal from the poor... That's what media and Big Biz is all about... They do it, promote it, and sell however they can. It's there bottom line... And we buy it lock, stock and credit card...

It's not an issue of freedom of speech, it's an issue that we are stupid enough to watch the tube, buy their stupid magazine and listen to their judgment of our music...

The American people deserve David Letterman and the rest of the what they have created.

We select presidents that lie and steal... THey are are LEADERS?

Yeah I'm fed up. Threw out the TV... Dumped the radio, canceeled the paper and terminated my support to public "Big Bucks" Radio

Now I spend my time singing and playing for and with the people. No fame, no glory, no retirement...But aleast a good night's sleep and a world more in balance.