The original decision on "Money for Nothing" was from the industry's own Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, and today the government's CRTC regulator asks the Council to take a second look at its January 12 ruling - the one that raised an outcry from members of Dire Straits and members of the gay community. The CRTC says "the decision has elicited a strong public reaction and created uncertainty for private radio stations across the country." The next step? The government agency "has asked the Council to appoint a panel with a national composition to review the complaints regarding the song as well as its original decision." The 1985 lyric, played unedited on many stations in Canada and elsewhere, is told in the voice of a store clerk. The CRTC's asking for "consideration of the context of the particular wording in the song's theme and intended message; the age and origin of the song and the performance date; the prominence of the contested word and use of that word over time; and the length of time and frequency that it has been playing on the radio." The use of a potential slur such as "faggot" would not be an issue for the Federal Communications Commission, in the U.S. Virtually its only oversight of content is in the area of indecency and obscenity. Racial and other slurs are not within its purview.