MCR march
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| Tallulah Admin  Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 16777215 | |
| IceHog69 Bulletproof Heart  Age: 31 Gender: - Posts: 25232 | MigRacer: I know it is late, but they nicked that song title off Blur, who a lot of parents of kids a bit younger than me would probably have listened to, so you would have thought they would pick a different title. |
| Lovesick Melody. Bulletproof Heart  Age: 83 Gender: Female Posts: 25760 | ^^ They didn't nick the song title. That would be plagiarism. They thought it would best suit the song, thats why they named it The End. |
| Tallulah Admin Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 16777215 | ChipmunkOnKetamine:The Blur song is To The End. I know that's also a MCR song but i doubt many people would know the Blur song, it wasn't very commercially successful. I know, i was a massive Blur fan. Plus, i don't think they nicked it, there are plenty of song titles that are the same but it's not plagiarism. |
| Jenny. Moderator  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 19720 | JadeTiger712:There isn't an exact number; people were coming and going all day, so it would have been difficult to calculate, but there was an average of 200 people at Marble Arch with 30 at the Daily Mail headquarters on Derry Street. |
| RAWWWRR!!!!BMTH!!!! Killjoy Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 13 | I think teh daily mail is wrong to say that MCR is the term for suicide because i have been through self harming and MCR helped through it |
| Mindfuck Always Born a Crime  Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 5614 | MY_CHEM_KID:The Daily Mail got that information from the girl's parents, so in essence it wasn't really the Daily Mail bashing MCR, I don't think. They were just reporting what they'd been told. |
| Jenny. Moderator Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 19720 | Ah, but we were discussing the Daily Mail in english - they have a real way of using words to manipulate the audience, a bit of a talent, actually. |
| John St. John Shotgun Sinner  Age: 31 Gender: Male Posts: 7145 | ^^ But don't all news papers? I dont think the daily mail did anything wrong. No, I don't agree with what they said, but they were in there rights to post it. They have freedom of speech, im sure. if we protested against everything we disagree with thats posted in papers we'd never stop protesting. What im trying to say is, no matter what they post there's always going to be supporters and non supporters. |
| Toki Really Not Okay  Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 723 | Not necessarily all newspapers deliberately try to manipulate the audience. The Times, The Guardian and The Independent all managed to report the story with neutrality and the absence of ignorance. The Daily Mail however are notorious for sensationalising the simplest of stories, and I know people (myself included) who go on their website to laugh at all the ridiculous things they manage to come out with. It's a source of daily comedy really. As to whether you think they did anything wrong - that's a matter of personal perception. In my opinion journalism which isn't adequately researched and very much sensationalised should not be allowed to surface into the mainstream media. The three articles concerning MCR are examples (among many others written by the Mail) of poor quality journalism. |
| Cigarettes And Suicide Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 37 Gender: Female Posts: 1725 | The Daily Fail is only a step up from News of the World as far as sensationalist tabloid 'journalism' (if one could call it that) goes, so if they want to bag MCR, that's fine by me - only people who are gullible believe anything they have to say without forming their own opinions. |
| John St. John Shotgun Sinner Age: 31 Gender: Male Posts: 7145 | Personally I just seen the march as the bggest waste of time ever. If your going to protest, Protest about something thats important. Like poverty, the credit crunch, terrorism ect. Yes, people might see music as important to them, but in comparison to lifes real issues is it really worth the fuss? |
| Tallulah Admin Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 16777215 | Thats the beauty of the UK. People can protest about anything they like. I will never understand why people seem to think that you can only protest about "global" issues. What's important to one person might be not important to another. The point is you can protest about anything at all you want to. Thats a basic human right, to have your voice heard. If you want to protest about the price of fish, thats your right. If you want protest about cruelty to animals, fine. I have a problem with people belittling those people who do stick their head about the parapet and stand up for what they believe in. This not directed at anyone in particular, I'm just adding to the discussion. |
| tabitha Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 45 Gender: Female Posts: 1831 | Didn't we already have this discussion last year when the march happened? |
| Tallulah Admin Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 16777215 | Yes, but I guess we can now look at the issue in retrospect. |
| tabitha Bleeding on the Floor Age: 45 Gender: Female Posts: 1831 | I guess, but it sounds like we'll just have the exact same argument again. I'll support your decision to keep the thread open but I don't know if we need to go through it a second time. |
| Thug Life. Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 1315 | Utada Hikaru: In my opinion the march was a massive waste of time. For one thing nothing got done. The daily mail will still print articles about MCR and the middle aged will still read and think poorly about them. And you know what ? The Daily Mail are well within their rights to do so, whats the point of having a publication if your just going to write stories that agree with the other publications. And yeah there are worse things out there than a newspaper badmouthing a rock band. There's a war in the middle east where people are dying on a daily basis, There's an economic crisis which is basically affecting all of us and petrol prices are thrashing the average household. If you stand back and look at the bigger picture it just seems ridiculous to get up in arms over something as minuscule as a rock band getting badmouthed in the papers. And i don't think I've heard of any press release from MCR concerning the march (Correct me if im wrong) so either they're very ungrateful or they really couldn't care less about the daily mail .. |
| Thug Life. Bleeding on the Floor Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 1315 | dp |
| Thug Life. Bleeding on the Floor Age: 33 Gender: Male Posts: 1315 | dp |
| Day Of The Dead Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 4772 | ^ Actually, they did hear about it and said their fans were awesome. I can't find the interview but I'm pretty sure it's on this thread somewhere. And it's about standing up for what you personally believe in. As Tallulah; Schechter said, you can protest on anything you want. I was there and it felt amazing to be among people who were protesting for something I felt strongly about. Sure alot of people think it was a stupid thing to do and a big waste of time, but atleast we showed compassion for something rather than just sitting around complaining and not doing anything. Sorry if that offended anyone, but that is my personal view on it. |
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