After finnish heavy-metal band Lordi won Eurovision song contest band wanted media to stop trying to publish pictures without masks. Finnish shit-magazines Katso! and 7-päivää still wanted to publish picture about Lordi without masks. Finnish fans and people got very angry about not respecting their honest will and started to rise against those magazines.
1 of the biggest breweries Olvi Oyj has now withdrawn their advertisements from magazines. Finnish travel agencies are withdrawing their ads from magazines website.
There is over 200 000 people who have given their signature for boycott of those magazines. Magazines have already sent their apologies and they replaced unmasked pictures with masked ones. Finnish people are not still happy, over 8000 have cancelled their order of 7-Päivää magazine. Even some goverment members have said that publishing pictures against their wish is not good ethics of media.
There will also be protest march against those magazines in front of their office later today.
Funny :) I have always thought that even Finland is democracy we don't have real power. Now it seems that people still have some power left.
Finnish people got angry for gutter press
by Lehtiveli 3 Replies latest jw friends
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Lehtiveli
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Crumpet
But of all the things to protest about! hehe!
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Shazard
When you vote with your wallet then it is real democracy!
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Lehtiveli
In Finland, we dont have public votings much anymore. Now we are only voting with our wallets. That's why prices example in flying tickets or mobile phone calls are changing really quickly. :P Now there is a law for cheaper medicines: If you go to pharmacy, they must offer you "brand-medicines" and cheaper non-brand medicines. Same stuff with different package. And customer can decide what medicine they buy. I think this voting with wallet works pretty nicely now.