Ground breaking computer graphics in your music video are just not enough to make people feel the love anymore.
From CBC.ca:
The 1980s song Money for Nothing by the British rock band Dire Straits has been deemed unacceptable for play on Canadian radio.
In a ruling released Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council says the song contravenes the human rights clauses of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code…
Last year, a listener to radio station CHOZ-FM in St. John’s complained that the ’80s rock song includes the word “faggot” in its lyrics and is discriminatory to gays…
A CBSC panel concluded that the word “faggot,” even if once acceptable, has evolved to become unacceptable in most circumstances.
The panel noted that Money for Nothing would be acceptable for broadcast if suitably edited.[source]
Hot on the heels of the muckitymuck about Huck Finn’s vocabulary, Canada finds itself facing a similar (if less literary) debate.