Wondering why you’re not seeing the great new Michael Moore directed System of a Down video on MTV or MuchMusic? Journalist Bill Werde did some digging:
The truth is much more insidious than a couple of channels worried about offending viewer sensibilities. In the case of Much Music USA, I was contacted–on the record, but anonymously–by an employee of the channel who told me that the day that Much Music was planning to air the video, word came down from the top that “Boom!” was not to be played. But “the top,” in this case, wasn’t programming directors, concerned about content. Rather, it was the ad sales department. My Much Music Deep Throat explained that the U.S. Army was a major advertiser on the channel. (full story)
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