{"id":57,"date":"2003-04-02T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2003-04-02T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2012-11-19T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T15:28:02","slug":"bbc-censors-reggae-anti-war-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/bbc-censors-reggae-anti-war-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC censors reggae anti-war songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC 1Xtra has removed several songs and comments from a selection by German Soundsystem <a href=\"http:\/\/rootscommandment.de\/bbc1xtra.htm\">Roots Commandment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show has been heavily &#8220;edited&#8221; because the BBC feels that tunes like Bob Marley&#8217;s War and others might offend the British Public.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of this is that the same station was taken to task last year for playing a steady diet of bling bling bashment tunes and hardly any roots material providing a more positive message. TOK&#8217;s notorious homophobic &#8220;Chi Chi man&#8221; also featured in one of the adverts for the station, heralding a large volume of complaints&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Calls for peace &#8211; no.<br \/>\nCalls to &#8220;bun the chi chi man&#8221; &#8211; yes.<\/p>\n<p>Further information, including mp3s of the full, uncensored show, is available from the link above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC 1Xtra has removed several songs and comments from a selection by German Soundsystem Roots Commandment. The show has been heavily &#8220;edited&#8221; because the BBC feels that tunes like Bob Marley&#8217;s War and others might offend the British Public. The irony of this is that the same station was taken to task last year for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/bbc-censors-reggae-anti-war-songs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;BBC censors reggae anti-war songs&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dwnlads","category-politricks","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}