Clear Channel responds.

An error of fact occurred in Elizabeth DiNovella's interview with Tom Morello Tom Morello (born May 30, 1967, as Thomas Baptist Morello) is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist of the bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. He performs as a solo acoustic artist under the pseudonym The Nightwatchman. . Clear Channel is referenced as having issued a memorandum following 9/11 banning all Rage Against the Machine songs, as well as John Lennon's "Imagine" and other songs.

The corporate offices of Clear Channel Communications Not to be confused with clear channel radio stations, which are AM radio stations with certain technical parameters.
Clear Channel Communications (NYSE: CCU) is a media conglomerate company based in the United States. did not issue a corporate mandate to discontinue playing John Lennon's "Imagine" or songs by Rage Against the Machine following the events of 9/11. Clear Channel radio stations are operated and programmed locally based on extensive audience research. Local managers make their own decisions about programming and community events. In fact, according to according to
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the broadcast performances of a record on radio Monitor service, Clear Channel stations played "Imagine" two times more often the week after 9/11 than the week before 9/11. For the two weeks following 9/11, Clear Channel stations' broadcasting of "Imagine" represented 29.4 percent of total industry airplay of the song. Also, Clear Channel stations played Rage Against the Machine's songs more than 800 times in the two weeks following 9/11.

Lisa Dollinger, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. , Clear Channel Communications

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Date:	Mar 1, 2004
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