2006-05-23
Country Stations Trammel Free Speach
Who needs the First Ammendment check on government tyrany if private citizens will perform tyranical acts themselves? Here country music listeners successfully demand that their stations block new songs from the Dixie Chicks, and some programming directors are nixing the chicks on their own. Where is the outcry from those on the right who oppose university faculties imposing anti-right thought requirements on campus? Advocates of free speach only have credability when they defend those who espouse views abhorent to themselves.
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What the article doesn't report is that both the Dixie Chicks' single and album are high on the download charts. This indicates that the presumably more intellectual audience for mp3 downloads continues to eat up the group's unapologetic stance.
From http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/14636214.htm
For band member Martie Maguire, the controversy was a blessing in disguise.
``I'd rather have a small following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith,'' Maguire said. ``We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do.''
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