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Democracy In Action/Sonned By Tay Zonday Dept.: The "pop" song by working girl Ashley Alexandra Dupre—the one linked to disgraced (and now former) NY governor Eliot Spitzer—has been withdrawn from New York radio station Z100's playlist 24 hours or so after it was added because maybe people don't want to hear something 10 to 20 times a day that worked best as a viral blip/aural punchline to a breaking scandal. [MTV]

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Who could have foreseen that a story about the musical ambitions of one of the women involved in the prostitution scandal that brought down former NY governor Eliot Spitzer would turn into a comments-box gang-bang debating the monetary value of her non-musical services? Oh, that's right. Everyone. But hey, song's at least as good as, I dunno, Ashley Tisdale? One of those Hills ladies? Something TV-related that satisfies ever-lowering expectations for radio pop, anyway. [Daily Swarm]

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Music Industry's Spitzer Schadenfreude

Sure, the Governor of New York getting busted for dallying with hookers was bad news for nearly everyone involved, primarily Mr. Spitzer. But if you're a music biz executive, the good news days are few and far between, so one man's disaster turned out to be a upbeat day for the major label guys. Sure, the Governor was largely appreciated for his tough stance on corporate malfeasance, but when you were on the "who can really say what 'corruption' is, anyway?" side, he was a bit of a jerk. So, when the hooker thing came to light, well...
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4:45 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Dan Gibson
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Latest by NoctisEqui: Karma's a b*tch, is all I have to say. Spitzer's payola crackdown made my work life a living hell when I was doing radio promo- even at a small label where all I was really dealing with were small non-commercial more »