Internal memo sent to MTV Europe employees

[strange_one]

Dear all

In the light of the outbreak of war in Iraq in the last 12 hours, our
recommendations for the scheduling and content of videos and
programmes are as follows:

1. Video recommendations

Obviously, there will be heightened public sensitivity to
representations of war, soldiers, bombing, destruction of buildings
and public unrest at home. The ITC Programme Code requires us not to
broadcast material which offends against good taste or is offensive to
public feeling. We therefore recommend that videos featuring the
following are not shown at the moment:

war
soldiers
war planes
bombs
missiles
riots and social unrest
executions
other obviously sensitive material

Examples *******:
System of a Down "Boom!" - anti-war video containing facts and figures
about, amongst other things, the projected casualties in the war in Iraq.
Aerosmith "Don't want to miss a thing" - contains footage from the
film "Armageddon".
Manic Street Preachers "So Why So Sad" - contains footage of soldiers
being killed and man throwing a hand grenade.
Passengers/U2 "Miss Sarajevo" - contains missiles, guns and buildings
being blown up.
Bon Jovi "This ain't a love song" - contains war scenes and victims in
distress.
Iggy Pop "Corruption" - contains wars, riots, guns and captions "we
love guns" and "we love rifles".
Paul Hardcastle "19" - contains war footage.
Radiohead "Lucky" - contains war footage including injured children.
Billy Idol "Hot in the City" - contains an atomic explosion.
Armand van Helden "Koochy" - contains an atomic explosion and ships
being blown up.
Trick Daddy "Thug Holiday" - contains soldiers being killed at war.

Furthermore, videos with words such as "bomb", "missile", "war" or
other sensitive words in the artist or song title should not be shown
at the moment.

Examples *******:
Outkast "B.O.B (Bombs over Baghdad)" - song title may offend.
Radiohead "Invasion" - song title may offend.
Megadeth "Holy Wars" - song title may offend.
Gavin Friday "You, Me and World War Three" - song title may offend.
B-52s videos.

[Junebug]

Originally posted by strange_one


Aerosmith "Don't want to miss a thing" - contains footage from the
film "Armageddon". videos.

heh. that's kind of sad. I'm telling you people, not having a television can do wonders for you. sort of.

[mewl]

that's retarded.

[Injektilo]

Originally posted by strange_one


Radiohead "Invasion" - song title may offend.

Did I miss something?

[patrick]

Originally posted by Injektilo



Did I miss something?

no.