Reuters is reporting that Nine Inch Nails has pulled out of the MTV Movie Awards due to the cable channels objections over the band's backdrop... an undoctored image of George W. Bush. clearly viacom continues to feel the icey cold grip of censorship after the nipplegate and memogate.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The rock band Nine Inch Nails said on Friday it canceled plans to appear on next week's MTV Movie Awards after the network questioned the band's plans to perform in front of an image of President Bush.
one is left wondering how relevent a music channel can be to it's core demographic if it feels so compelled to dance to the corporate organ grinder's music. Trent Reznor, however didn't skip a beat in using the incident to further his message.
"We were set to perform 'The Hand That Feeds' with an unmolested, straightforward image of George W. Bush as the backdrop. Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me," Nine Inch Nails' leader Trent Reznor said in a statement posted on the band's Web site.
the song? haven't heard it? well...
A Los Angeles Times review called the song "a warning against blind acceptance of authority, including that of a president leading his nation to war."
whoever said the next revolution will be televised was dead wrong. the next revolution will sidestep the networks and distribute the footage via the web.