{"id":26307,"date":"2011-09-05T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T08:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26307"},"modified":"2011-09-05T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:40:28","slug":"canada-decision-to-pull-dire-straits-song-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26307","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Decision to pull Dire Straits song reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian<\/a> Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-14750076\">overturned a January decision<\/a> to pull a 1985 song by the popular Dire Straits. The song,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0&amp;ob=av2n\">&#8220;Money for nothing&#8221;<\/a>, was pulled from airwaves after complaints over the lyrics, which use the word &#8220;faggot&#8221;. The council reversed the decision after considering the meaning of the lyrics, which were meant to be satirical.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) overturned a January decision to pull a 1985 song by the popular Dire Straits. The song,\u00a0&#8220;Money for nothing&#8221;, was pulled from airwaves after complaints over the lyrics, which use the word &#8220;faggot&#8221;. The council reversed the decision after considering the meaning of the lyrics, which were meant to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[7393,3742,103,3743,1296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26314,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307\/revisions\/26314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}