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Post Info TOPIC: Dire Straits Gets Reprieve from Canadian Radio Ban


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Date: Sep 1 23:20:52 2011
Dire Straits Gets Reprieve from Canadian Radio Ban


The Dire Straits classic "Money for Nothing" can be played on Canadian radio stations again after the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council reversed an earlier ruling banning the song.  The song was put on the banned list in January after a listener in Newfoundland complained about the song's use of the word "fa**ot".  The latest ruling on the matter concluded that "the story told in this song, developed at some length over more than eight minutes, provides sufficient plot development, story line and context to justify (the phrase)."  

 




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