Money for Nothing

Delphinus · #1 01-15-2011, 04:58 PM

Sad day indeed. A very troubling precedent and the completely misguided and misplaced.

hillbillyreefer · #2 01-15-2011, 05:50 PM

Wasn't even the CRTC it was the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, the broadcast industries own body. It's unbelievable the power one crybaby can have over an entire country, the question is where does it stop? Pretty much everything on our airways must offend at least one person, with this precedent the industry will eventually ban itself.

Glad I've got a satellite radio, I can boycott the entire nanny state system in Canada.

tinman · #3 01-15-2011, 06:04 PM

The actual story on this song is that Mark Knopfler wandered in to an appliance store and was standing in front of a bank of TV's, all which were on MTV. A delivery guy (for the store) came up to him and remarked on the easy life of the guy playing. |He obviously didn't know who he was talking to! (and you can see the actual comments from MK on youtube.... it's hilarious). The song is written from this dude's perspective.... not Mark Knopflers. In effect, its about how this other guy see's Mark, as he is one of those faggots with the earring and the makeup....

as per the misses the biggest mark knopler geek i know!

Cranky When Wet · #4 01-15-2011, 06:44 PM

I love that song with it's wry humour and am deeply saddened to see such inane censorship rear it's lop-sided head again.

When are they gonna' start "burning books?" and how does one "dis-empower" the freaking CBC?

Bunny

petlaur · #5 01-15-2011, 09:56 PM

Now look at them yoyo's(the censors) that's not the way to do it. Please leave this classic song alone!!!!!Grrrrr!!!

Lance · #6 01-15-2011, 11:26 PM

I hope they "Get a blister on their little finger", for pushing the button on a classic! For Shame!

trilinearmipmap · #7 01-16-2011, 12:12 AM

I am the last person ever to support censorship and I loathe political correctness however I have a different point of view on this.

Going to high school in the 80's kids would get called "fag" and "homo" as the default insult. If you wanted to call someone an idiot/loser you would call them a "faggot", as if being gay was the worst thing in the world to be. I don't know if it's the same now or if teenagers are more accepting of gays. Anyway as a kid/teenager I got the message loud and clear from parents and peers that homosexuals were the lowest of the low. And I bought into this bullshit.

One kid I know tried to hang himself because of this.

A while back I looked up an old school friend on Facebook and found a picture of him with his (male) partner. I had had no idea. How many times had me and my friends used the word "fag" in his presence. I feel bad knowing he had to put up with this and pretend to be OK with it.

It's true the song takes on the persona of someone else to call someone a "faggot". Still, we would not accept a song about filthy niggers, greedy Jews, or crafty Chinamen, but "faggot" is OK.

Lastly no one censored the song. There is a voluntary group of broadcasters who voluntarily agree to adhere to a set of standards. Any radio station is free to play this song if they wish.