31 May 2006
Written by Rainer
It keeps going and going…
The hurdling around the Lordi-pictures keeps going. Few Finnish columnists (one from the 2nd largest newspaper in Finland; Aamulehti and one ex-parlamentarist) are now referring that the actions of “the youth”, ie. the “demonstration” and the signers of condolence, are now regarded equal to pyromans, muslim fanatics after 9/11 and hitler-jugend on chrystal night. Not surpricingly these are the same columnists who referred “the youth” as mockers of organized society when new copyright law was approved and “the young people” had organized a “demonstration” where they walked into a police stations and confessed that due the new legislation they were now criminals and wanted to be charged for their crime [background: braking a DRM and owning such content became illegal in Finland in the beginning of 2006].
The columnists refer Aller Publishing’s Seiska and Katso (the two tabloid magazines who published the pictures along newspaper Hämeen Sanomat) as “the final frontiers of the freedom of speech”.
The ones who responded tried to point out to the columnists that “the Public” is tired of the tabloid “journalism” and people are just making a poit by not buying the magazine and expressing their disappointment towards their acts but
I normally don’t read the publications where these columnists write, because they are too blue toned (ie. the papers support Finnish “bourgeois party” Kokoomus) but now they drifted to me due their childish and naive argumentations. Luckily the columnists forgot the golden rule of conversations: who ever uses the “Natzi-card” has already lost the argument.