by Pops » Wed 24 May 2006, 09:27:00
Not so much the rednecks – she got on the wrong side of Clear Channel
Clear Channel owns about 1200 radio stations; exclusive booking rights to many venues, and lots of other media goodies and can probably make or break any artist.
Of course they wanted even more stations but needed a favor from the FCC. Clear Channel at the time was putting on "Rally For America", a support our troops type pep rally, which Carl Rove could have designed to make anyone against the war look like they were really against the soldiers – not to mention the tens of thousands they gave to the repubs.
Shouldn’t mess with the old boy network.
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/clearchannel.asp
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Pops on Wed 24 May 2006, 09:54:54, edited 1 time in total.
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