] As part of the ongoing vendetta against the country music
] group Dixie Chicks, two disc jockeys were suspended from
] a Colorado Springs, Colorado radio station for locking
] themselves in the studio while they took listener
] requests for the band%u2019s music. DJs Dave Moore and
] Jeff Singer were suspended May 5 for violating a boycott
] imposed by the management of KKCS 102 FM. The ban has
] been in place since group member Natalie Maines made a
] comment hostile to George W. Bush at a March concert in
] London just prior to the US invasion of Iraq.
]
] The station%u2019s General Manager, Jerry Grant, declared
] in a media release justifying the reprisals against Moore
] and Singer that the Dixie Chicks were censored because
] the station had to be sensitive to its listening audience
] in a city with five military bases. He claimed that
] listeners wanted the music pulled until last week, when
] %u201Cthe tide began to turn%u201D in favor of the
] proscribed group.