This type of thing makes me want to explode. Read on:

DEEP ELM RECORDS RELEASES ALTERNATE FIGHTSTAR VIDEO DUE TO CONCERN BY BROADCASTERS OVER SCHOOL VIOLENCE CONTENT

Due to concern by major broadcasters over school violence content, Deep Elm Records is releasing an alternate video for FIGHTSTAR’s “Paint Your Target,” the first single from the London-based band’s debut “They Liked You Better When You Were Dead.” The original video for “Paint Your Target” features school children in a spirited game of playground war. Although the video contains simulated gunfire and explosions, there are actually no weapons in the video.

While no US media outlet has officially banned the video, there have been issues expressed to the label concerning “questionable content” and “broadcast standards,” perhaps following suit of UK counterparts such as the BBC, which declared the video “offensive” and refused to show it on any of its terrestrial stations.

Regarding the video, FIGHTSTAR bassist and Dan Haigh stated “this is social commentary on how violence is inherent in our culture. It’s a real shame that rock music can’t be the platform for revolution in modern media like it used to be.”

“Censorship has gone too far. This is a bunch of school children playing with their fingers pointed like guns. You’ll find this on every playground in America” added Deep Elm founder John Szuch. “We live in a society of war…perhaps we need to focus on what we are teaching our children.”

The original video was directed by FIGHTSTAR’s Dan Haigh for Horsie In The Hedge Cinema. The new, alternate video for “Paint Your Target” was directed by Sam Brown for Flynn Productions. Deep Elm Records encourages you to watch both videos and draw your own conclusions.

SEE the ORIGINAL Video: http://www.deepelm.com/PAINT-YOUR-TARGET/

SEE the ALTERNATE Video: http://www.deepelm.com/PAINT-YOUR-TARGET-ALT/

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There are no weapons and no deaths in this video. There’s not even blood. This is basically exaggerating the game that kids play on playgrounds all over the world. Kids can see much, much worse than this on their TV any time of the day, and Fightstar gets pulled? This is wrong, wrong, wrong. I want to see all violent films with any loss of blood pulled off the stations that refuse to play this video. Otherwise they are nothing but hypocrites.
And people say that it’s because kids are doing the fighting that it’s so bad. Wrong. Cartoons on any channel show kids doing much, much worse than this. People actually get hurt in those shows. This is merely satire- pointed satire.
This kind of thing makes me want to explode.