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Love Your Country.(country music and social virtue)

National Review

| October 14, 2002 | KURTZ, STANLEY | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I went looking for the war on MTV and couldn't find it. True, just after 9/11, MTV did join with the USO to put on a special called "For the Troops." And for some time afterward, the station played Kid Rock's single from that special (a song that had nothing to do with 9/11 per se). But so far as I can tell, Kid Rock is gone, and MTV is now convinced that the war is over.

On Country Music Television, on the other hand, the war is still omnipresent. A fan wins a chance to interview Reba McEntire and asks how 9/11 changed her life; countdown shows intersperse hits with shots of country-music stars entertaining soldiers; and the phrase "Love Your Country" has become ...

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