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July 30th, 2003 Can this reputation be saved?
by Katie Delahaye Paine The short
answer: Not having been able to secure an interview with Natalie Maines or any of her fellow Chicks, I can only offer an outsider's perspective on the fallout from their comments about their fellow Texan. This could go down in history as one of the more brilliant, yet inadvertent, PR moves. In case you've been under a rock (or in Iraq) for the past six months, let me explain... At the height of the pre-Iraq war controversy, Ms. Maines had the audacity to criticize the Commander-in-Chief, saying that she was "ashamed" of our president, a remark that caused a horrified, nationwide gasp. The ensuing flap saw the band banned from country music stations and dropped from record stores. More recently, they were a topic of Senate hearings into media ownership when another outspoken public figure from the region, John McCain, questioned whether Cumulus Radio's banning of the Chicks constituted censorship. Rack up another hundred million or so opportunities to read about the band, and what do you get? How about records that are #1 on the charts, a sell-out crowd of cheering fans in Dallas on the Fourth of July, and worldwide renown. In fact, the Dixie Chicks' tour during the first half of 2003 was the third-highest-grossing concert series in the world. And to think that prior to all this "negative" publicity, the Dixie Chicks had but a small coterie of loyal Alternative Country Music fans. (See this article for more on the Chicks' recent success.) Thanks
to all the brouhaha, the Dixie Chicks are now a household word heard
'round the world. And can anyone remember the name of the guy who first
banned their record from the radio? I doubt it. So... Whose reputation
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