Clear Channel may own 1,200 stations, but when they banned Bruce Springsteen’s “Magic,” and the album hit number one, the right should have felt their own “ill wind blowing in,” similar to the one Bruce is feeling in “Living in the Future.”
Clear Channel at first said that they were not giving his CD airtime because he’s too old. ‘Scuse me, waiter? Can I have a side of ageism served up with my hypocrisy? The Dixie Chicks and Bruce could form a support group: “voices Clear Channel wants to stifle.”
I swear, from a PR standpoint, there is no better publicity stunt that Bruce’s PR team could have pulled off themselves. Clear Channel bans his politically left album? Oh man. But, as Bruce himself might say, “baby don’t you fret. None of this has happened yet.”
