The "Lord's Prayer" cinema ad
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 6:43 pm
Here's some examples of the coverage of this story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34891928
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... ristianity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religio ... peech.html
Is it just me, or is this a total non-story that is being reported in a way that seems to be designed to stir up yet more trouble between religions?
As far as I can see it, DCM (the body responsible for the majority of cinema advertising) has made a commercial decision not to accept the advert and the Church of England are branding it as a ban. It is not a ban. It's a policy of not accepting any religious or politically-motivated advertising, which I am entirely behind. When I go to see a film, I expect to see adverts for commercial products, it's part of the dance that cinemas have to do to mitigate their costs. I don't expect to see overt adverts for religious or political organisations, especially weirdoid extreme ones like the C of E.
If they accepted this advert (which is paid for by the Church of England, let's not forget) then they are opening themselves up to taking adverts for any religious organisation and I think that would be an awful slippery slope. I can totally understand why they don't want to do that.
Added to that, the DCM got quite badly burned recently by showing pro- and anti- independence adverts in Scotland, leading to quite a loss of revenue to small independent cinemas that led to some of them having to close. Given that, their position on this religious advert (which is far more contentious) is entirely sensible.
It just bothers me that it's being reported as a "ban" when it's not a ban at all and the C of E are acting all wounded about it and crying "censorship". I believe there even legal challenges planned by the Church. Luckily they will lose all these but it's a bit disturbing that they're planning on spunking out a shitload of money to lawyers over something that anyone with half a brain would tell them was a losing battle.
Religion eh? Isn't it great? Fucking idiots leading idiots.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34891928
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... ristianity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religio ... peech.html
Is it just me, or is this a total non-story that is being reported in a way that seems to be designed to stir up yet more trouble between religions?
As far as I can see it, DCM (the body responsible for the majority of cinema advertising) has made a commercial decision not to accept the advert and the Church of England are branding it as a ban. It is not a ban. It's a policy of not accepting any religious or politically-motivated advertising, which I am entirely behind. When I go to see a film, I expect to see adverts for commercial products, it's part of the dance that cinemas have to do to mitigate their costs. I don't expect to see overt adverts for religious or political organisations, especially weirdoid extreme ones like the C of E.
If they accepted this advert (which is paid for by the Church of England, let's not forget) then they are opening themselves up to taking adverts for any religious organisation and I think that would be an awful slippery slope. I can totally understand why they don't want to do that.
Added to that, the DCM got quite badly burned recently by showing pro- and anti- independence adverts in Scotland, leading to quite a loss of revenue to small independent cinemas that led to some of them having to close. Given that, their position on this religious advert (which is far more contentious) is entirely sensible.
It just bothers me that it's being reported as a "ban" when it's not a ban at all and the C of E are acting all wounded about it and crying "censorship". I believe there even legal challenges planned by the Church. Luckily they will lose all these but it's a bit disturbing that they're planning on spunking out a shitload of money to lawyers over something that anyone with half a brain would tell them was a losing battle.
Religion eh? Isn't it great? Fucking idiots leading idiots.
