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Canada officials backpedal on Dire Straits "Money For Nothing"
The Canadian Standards Broadcast Council says the ban on playing the Dire Straits song "Money For Nothing" can be lifted, and the decision left to individual stations to determine if and how it will be played. At issue is the word "faggot," which appears more than once in the classic song. The CSBC said in its ruling that "In the end, the ad hoc National Panel considers that the Atlantic Regional Panel was correct in its view of the inappropriateness of the word “faggot” for broadcast on Canadian airwaves. Whether or not the challenged word was at one time less unacceptable, perhaps as recently as 25 years ago, it no longer is ... the ad hoc National Panel concludes that the original version does not breach the private broadcasters’ codified standards. It would encourage broadcasters to make the airplay choice appropriate to their market." You can read the complete CSBC decision here.
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