The Media’s Treatment Of Morgan Wallen Is A Warning: The Left Wants Control Of Country Music
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The Media’s Treatment Of Morgan Wallen Is A Warning: The Left Wants Control Of Country Music

Megan Basham

Over the last few weeks, several major radio chains that had previously taken disgraced country star Morgan Wallen out of rotation quietly began playing his music again. He still wasn’t welcome at Wednesday’s CMT awards, the latest of the industry ceremonies to ban him, but his record label lifted his four-month contract suspension. And fellow performers like Miranda Lambert and Jason Aldean recently showed him support by praising his newest song on social media.

All of this isn’t sitting well with Washington Post entertainment reporter Emily Yahr, who seems to feel the 28-year-old should suffer further consequences for a February video leak that showed him referring to a white friend as the n-word while intoxicated.

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