The word "faggot" is usually too hurtful for Canadians to hear on the radio -- but the classic song Money for Nothing gets a pass.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) ruled Thursday that the 1984 Dire Straits hit is nuanced and thoughtful enough to be played uncensored.
In February 2010, Newfoundland rock station CHOZ-FM aired the uncensored, eight-minute version of the song. The song is written from the point of view of a working class man, and in one verse, he uses the anti-gay slur repeatedly when describing a rock star on TV.
A listener complained, saying the use of the "other f-word" was hateful and discriminatory.
A regional branch of the CBSC agreed the word was hostile and sent the matter to the national board for a ruling.
The CBSC says the "other f-word" is generally not acceptable on the air, but when put into context of the song narrative, it is not intended to be abusive.
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Composer Mark Knopfler has said he wrote the words while in a New York department store, from the perspective of a "bonehead who worked for the store, a great big macho guy with a, you know with a checked shirt on and a cap and a pair of work boots" who was complaining about his lot in life and jealous of the success of the performer he was watching on a TV screen.
Most radio stations had already dropped the lengthy album version and used the tighter radio edit, which doesn't include the offending word.
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