25 May 2006
Written by Rainer
Another one bites the dust
Apparently Seiska wasn’t the only one who published pictures of Lordi – in Finland I mean, “no-one expects any decency from those foreign magazines” (actual quote). This time the the publisher was a midsized morning newspaper Hämeen Sanomat.
The Council for Mass Media in Finland had instructed media to use “good manners” and, apparently all but two, members of the media had a consensus of not publishing the images.
The subscribers took this even more seriously than with the “trashpress” Seiska because this newspaper is was regarded of having high standards and following “good journalistic princibles”. The newspaper’s messageboard [in Finnish, sorry] was filled with angry subscribers. The “mob” was mostly angry of the fact that the author had based the article and the publication of the pictures on freedom of speech. I fail to see how the editor let this kind of content out. He has to justify the “freedom of speech card” very well in his editorial and the author should bring out her own point and justfication as well. The finnish public isn’t that blue eyed and forgiving when it comes to the abuse of freedom of speech.
edit 5mins later: Apparently the Hämeen Sanomat’s (the Finnish doesn’t work as part of English text) writer Tuulia Viitanen doesn’t have guts to use her own face with her articles and she’s justifying this with “a desent request of privacy” – hippocrisy anyone?
editorial note:This was originally an edit to the previous post but became a post of it’s own
Well, you know, Tuulia Viitanen probably has to refrain from using her picture so that she won’t be killed by an angry mob of Lordi lovers upset that their heroes’ request wasn’t respected ;).
Oh well, seriously, you should be glad that Finland isn’t as bad as it is in certain other countries – just go down to the shop and pick up The Sun or The Mirror, and look at the shit they’re publishing there. What the these two Finnish papers did was obviously quite disrespectful to the band, but I’d say it could be far, far worse.