Universal Music Group Removes Bands Songs Due To “Violence”
A recent article by Washington Square News dealt with a controversial issue, but mainly buried the lead while editorializing between quotes. The content was there, but just ignored. The lead singer (Pearl Abegg) of Be Your Own Pet provided some great answers in her interview; Abegg touched on quite a controversy in her interview, but instead of the lead reading “Universal Music Group censors Be Your Own Pet US album release due to “the violent nature of the songs” the lead ends up being a fan boy charecter trait observation of the band’s lead signer.
The lead reads ” Why does Jemina Pearl seem so much younger than her 20 years? It all comes back to that giggle.” It sounds like the journalist is more concerned with displaying his crush on Abegg to the world in hopes of her acceptance rather than reporting on a newsworthy controversy. After two paragraphs of describing the lead singer, then after hyping up the new album, only then does the journalist finally include the quote about the album’s censorship. Then at this point the journalist doesn’t comment on it. Though the next few quotes from Abegg speak for themselves, it seems the journalist is too fixated on this (very attractive) girl’s personality rather than doing his job of reporting what matters to the public, and corporate media censorship is certainly an issue that needs addressing.
