Where is the meaning behind the music anymore?

At my age , I have spent much of my life like many, learning way too much about music and the music industry. I do, however, find it difficult, to watch an industry of such power silence critics of the war. Descions made in corporate offices of Sony/BMG, WEA, and Universal stymie a message that was the soundtrack to the Vietnam era. In the mid 1960's, to the 1970's artists expressed their outrage to brothers and sisters dying needlessly. These artists, all came from culturally different backgrounds. We had Edwin Starr and the Temptations on Motown, we had Pete Seeger singing "We Shall Overcome", Neil Young's "Ohio", the Grateful Dead, Marvin Gaye and Joan Baez to name a handful. The music industry embraced what these artists contributed to a culture of unsatisfied, and deeply concerned citizenery. In a time, that culturally possesses much of that Vietnam Era unrest, where is music? Where is the industry and airwave personalities that provided an outlet for our dissent and disgust?

One recent act of censorship was this past fall, when radio conglomerate Clear Channel banned it's music stations from playing anything from Bruce Springsteen's "Magic". The reasoning was that at age 58, The Boss is too old to be played to younger audiences, so just play his early hits, cause people won't recognize the new ones. Well, of course not if you do not play them. In reality, we can take notice that the Boss' "The Last to Die" from this album, has a clear anti-war message. Granted, there are pro-peace artists you can hear on the radio, such as Dave Matthews, Pink, the Dixie Chicks, Jimmy Eat World, Serj Tankian, Melissa Ethridge and the Foo Fighters. Yet, the tracks you will hear are songs that are going to provide the cultural soundtrack of these times. Voices like Ani Difranco, Michael Franti, Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Flooging Molly and others get little or no play. At what point do we take back our culture? At what point do we tell Politicians and CEO's you can't hide the dead behind a lapel pin, and that we want voices of dissent in our arts. It was that creativity that created artistic history in our country and made it a beacon of freedom. If this censorship by corporations, the FCC, and the government continues, then I must ask, if we lose freedoms of thought, expression through the arts, speech, and the right to gather peacefully to collectively show our discontent, then, haven't the terrorists won?