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It's not just explicit songs - I'd use the word "appropriate"<br>
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I think that we'd all agree that the Glasgow station who tried to
say that the Fword was every day speech and that panini didn't mean
a certain body part was having a laugh and were rightly kicked.<br>
<br>
However, the danger is that we get knee-jerk reactions that have
unintended consequences. Ban Eminem, but then you knock out the song
that made Dido famous and is OK.<br>
<br>
You really need someone of the right age to vet a lot of rap and
similar stuff - I am old enough to saythat I would have probably
caught panini - especially given the words around it, but a lot of
street slang is just way beyond my ken - both musically (?!!) and
lyrically.<br>
<br>
We have a lot of Gaelic up here and a wonderful column in yesterdays
Aberdeen Press & Journal commented on the ATM in East London
using Cockney rhyming slang and asking why the Gaelic Mafia weren't
agitating for their version up here. The columnist points out that
in Gaelic rhyming slang a withdrawal would be a "cnap" - literally a
lump of money, ie a wad of cash. Unfortunately for non-Gaels, the
"n" is pronounced here as an "r" and would thus sound like the word
that got Paul Simon's "Kodachrome" banned when it was first
released.<br>
<br>
The English nickname "Bot" caused total hilarity with Gaelic
speaking school kids in Stornoway many years ago as they couldn't
believe that anyone, let alone a visiting Deputy Headmaster, was
openly called "*rse".<br>
<br>
Eric Bogle, much loved as an artist by many of our older Presenters,
has a song "Guns, Guns, Guns" which is a mickey take on the American
way of life. The day after Dunblane or the recent Tomintoul
Gamekeeper tragedy, many people and possibly Ofcom would probably
regard that song as at least as inapproriate as the Fword!<br>
<br>
I wouldn't play "I Predict A Riot" the night that Tottenham burned
and hope that everyone else was that sensible. But if you're using
an automated playout system out of hours.....?? Do you watch the
news and then quickly scan your entire music collection?<br>
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So yes, you should certainly vet music and not load/play certain
tracks. The Fword is an obvious one. But you also need to stress
"appropriateness", not just a very narrow "explicit"<br>
<br>
You also need to accept that with the best will in the world,
something will go wrong once in a while and have procedures in place
to handle it. The Fword is easy, others become more subjective and
station specific.<br>
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That's my personal opinion, anyway.<br>
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Must go now and finish my playlist for tonight - hmm, now which
excellent track by my favourite female rock band Fanny shall we
start with?<br>
<br>
Eddie<br>
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<p>Sorry Martin - and everyone else - but if, as you say, you
haven't the the staff or volunteers to pre-check all music
that's played, then you should simply not be using anything - or
anyone - that you are not prepared to personally guarantee as
socially acceptable.<br>
<br>
You are leaving yourself wide open to very serious social and
litigious action and in my view you should not risk operating a
freely-available public service under those conditions. <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span
style="COLOR: rgb(38,38,38)">Ian Hickling<br>
</span></b><b><span>Partner</span></b></p>
<b><span>transplan UK</span></b></blockquote>
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