Diamond Rio Song Being Banned From the Radio

*sigh*

Not true.

Snopes on Diamond Rio song

I had never heard this song until this forum, i cannot believe that this song was banned, it is beautiful and should be played. This Nation was founded on God and should remain that way!

Forgive me for being so brief. It is NOT true that the song was banned. Here's the relevant info from Snopes :

"Back in 2006, circulated e-mails touted the notion that "In God We Still Trust" did not receive radio airplay because its pro-religion-in-America message was deemed too "politically incorrect," a claim that did not stand up to scrutiny. In general, for a song to receive significant radio play it needs to be issued as a single and to have substantial promotional backing from the releasing label, but "In God We Still Trust" evidently satisfied neither of those requirements. It wasn't released at all (in any format) until it appeared as one of the four new songs included on Diamond Rio's Greatest Hits II CD in May 2006, and even then it was primarily an album track, not a single that was being sent to radio stations and promoted for airplay. The claim that "Major radio stations wouldn't play it because it was considered politically incorrect; consequently, the song was never released to the public" therefore puts the cart before the horse: a song generally needs to be released before it can receive widespread airplay on major radio stations, not vice-versa.

When "In God We Still Trust" was finally released, it had to compete for airplay in the wake of several other recent, similarly-themed songs from prominent recording artists, such as Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" and "American Soldier," Brooks and Dunn's "Believe," Carrie Underwood's "Jesus Take the Wheel," and Brad Paisley's "When I Get Where I'm Going." Listeners apparently didn't find the Diamond Rio song distinctive or appealing enough to make it stand out from the crowd and prompt additional requests for airplay, so — like a lot of other music — it quietly faded off of radio playlists without having achieved even minor hit status. Its lack of airplay wasn't due to "political incorrectness," but rather to bad timing and getting lost in the shuffle."


If this isn't enough, I suggest you just google the name of the musical group and the word banned. You'll find hundreds of pages with firsthand info (mostly from DJs) that also prove it false. People who write and propagate misinformation like this should be ashamed.

If the anti-religious forces in this country are so strong and pervasive, then WHY is it necessary--at least in the minds of some self-appointed Defenders of God and All That is Holy--to make up stuff like this? If rampant and agressive godlessness is all over the place, it would seem that the propagators of bogus tripe (like the discredited "In God We Still Trust" stuff discussed above) would be able to find plenty of the real thing so as not to have to fabricate calls to action to put before the eager but misguided soldiers of the cross to whom they zip off their viral e-mail bunkum.

Uh-huh. What beternU said-Only without all the stuffiness.

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Originally posted by Sue Real:
*sigh*
Not true.
Snopes on Diamond Rio song

Thank you for clearing that up. I should have checked it out first. Snopes is a good thing.
Sorry, folks.