CMT Faces Boycott Calls After Pulling Jason Aldean Song

CMT Faces Boycott Calls After Pulling Jason Aldean Song
Jason Aldean performs at the 2023 ACM Lifting Lives Topgolf Tee-Off And Rock On Fundraiser at Topgolf in The Colony, Texas, on May 10, 2023. Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images
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Some social media users, including country music fans, have called for a boycott of Country Music Television (CMT) after the channel pulled singer Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town.”

CMT aired the video for a few days before it removed it last week, sparking criticism that the channel was engaging in censorship. Some critics of Mr. Aldean’s song claimed that it used footage of a courthouse where a black teenager was allegedly lynched about 100 years ago.

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