> > > What's the big deal? Every other station I listen to plays the song in its entirety. I hate the way Mix 98.5 insults my intelligence by playing this truncated version of the song.
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> > That kind of bleeping out is not an insult to your intelligence or anyone else's. That particular radio station (as opposed to "every other station" that plays the song in its entirety), much like this particular web site (as opposed to "every other web site" that allows the phrase), simply wishes to target an audience that is sick and tired of hearing profane speech every where they turn ("every other radio station" and "every other web site"). There are a great deal of such people, myself among them, and that is the audience that radio station is evidently trying to target.
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> For one thing, it seems to me that Jimmy was referring just as much to the fact that an entire half stanza was cut out when one simple word would have done, judging from the station's motive.
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> And your comment only makes me only *more* curious about the situation Jimmy described. How does Mix 98.5 deal with other songs containing the word in question-- or, for that matter, songs containing other words that certain listeners consider profane? To me, Jimmy's post made it sound as if the station had some sort of double standard (e.g., editing out the New Radicals lyric while allowing more questionable lyrics to slip through in other songs); that's why I ask. I've heard quite a few stations that will let a lyric through in one song, but play an edit for another song that cuts out *the same exact words* in the same context...
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> -- codeman"so many rants, so little time"38

I listen to a classic rock station and *nothing* is censored or edited. That would include everything from Pink Floyd's 'Money' with the line:
"Don't give me that do goody-good bull(fecal matter)"
to The Who's 'Who Are You' which uses the f*** word about a dozen times. Additionally, there are many songs with violence:
"Hey, Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
'I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady, I caught her messin' 'round with another man'",
or even drugs:
"When your day is done and you wanna ru-un; cocaine".

It would seem that censorship is not retroactive.

That makes *A LOT* of sense.

Tra "plenty o' songs about drinking, too" nio