Had the opposite effect here on Q101 in Chicago. When A Thousand Suns came out, the DJ's that premiered 'The Catalyst," Sherman and Tingle, played it and then bad-mouthed it calling it terrible, awkward and said it sucked. They wanted people to call in to hear their reactions and the agreeing negative reactions were praised as the differing opposing reactions, the ones that liked it, were berated belittled and made fun of. Sadly, this was the day I stopped listening to the radio and lost all hope in it.
It's part of an illuminati conspiracy to undermine the band by indoctrinating the masses with anti-Linkin Park rhetoric via mainstream radio. It's working
I just heard that over here. I only listen to the radio in the car, and I hear Metallica on every frigging trip, and yet never LP. I just found out why. Local DJ mentions LP's Los Angeles charity show, then quips about the band putting more effort into their charity than their music. Then he goes to play that friggin Shadow of the Day. I changed the channel. I have yet to hear any ATS singles played on the radio. No Iridescent, no Catalyst, no nuthin.
I think it's safe to say that Linkin Park is slowly becoming the radio's version of CM Punk: hated by them, nu-metal kids and mainstream crowd, beloved by us here and most people willing to give them a chance to do what they want. Just my opinion. And that radio DJ can go crawl in a hole. "YOU GUYS SHOULD BE HELPING 'MURRIKA, NOT OTHER COUNTRIES." is what I got from his opinion, and I disagree entirely; sure we're in a down state, but there are other countries more greatly in need than us right now. Like many have said here, it's due to our government. MFR helps out many who are affected greatly by natural disasters, and that includes Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita about 6 years ago, and the California wildfires 4 years ago. This guy needs a wake-up call.
I live even closer to this radio station than Travis does. They're literally right across Highway 10 from my apartment - their antenna is maybe 1,000 feet from my balcony, tops. Even better: One of my supervisors at work is a DJ at one of Rev 96.7's rival stations in this town. He'll get a kick out of this kind of idiocy. *Edit* I should totally make a donation to MFR in this guy's name, using the radio station's address, and see if they send him a thank you or something. That'd be awesome.
Brings tears of happiness to my eyes that the world is so full of douchebags that there is a person willing to donate to MFR in their names at every step
The point I'm getting here is what's really been quite obvious all along: people love to criticize. People often fail to look at the good things and always focus on the bad things. The guy's argument is flawed. I don't think he understands that the magnitude of the damage and the suffering people are experiencing over in areas such as Japan and Haiti are much, much greater than what people are experiencing here in the United States. In the US, our government is so well structured that it could quite literally handle most disasters (which still don't really measure up to the destruction in Japan). It's the fact that the government often fails to address many issues. It is not Linkin Park's responsibility to help people specifically within their country. Really, it's not Linkin Park's responsibility to help anyone. Like someone said before, it comes out of the goodness of their hearts, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with the focus on natural disasters outside of the United States that are in fact much greater than anything anyone's experienced recently (apart from Hurricane Katrina, which Linkin Park did support as someone mentioned before). Yes, we are having many issues at home, but the issues we're having are first-world issues that could have been prevented but weren't. Even Hurricane Katrina was something that in the long-run could have been prevented in regards to the extent of the damages and the people affected, but decades upon decades of institutional racism and technocratic hubris led to the Lower Ninth Ward feeling the brunt of the damage and many people suffering as a result (mostly blacks). Had things even been a little bit better, Hurricane Katrina would not have been as devastating as it was. Not to mention, had the federal government responded sooner after the event occurred, recovery would have been a hell of a lot easier for New Orleans and the victims. Not to really make it political, but this is just a reflection of this guy's misunderstanding that Linkin Park is handling purely disasters, not government-created problems. It's also just someone trying to criticize the band because he has some sort of beef with them. Would he care otherwise? Probably not. There are plenty of huge bands that don't do anything compared to what Linkin Park does. Why aren't you getting on their case? And even then, who are you to judge someone when you're probably not helping anyone out yourself? In other words, stop bitching and, I don't know, start helping people. Instead of sitting there and criticizing, you know, like a bitch.
Right, I think this guy should look at himself and ask, who the hell am i to say anything? I don't understand why people complain about a good cause, make me think he is trying to get attention. And other thing, MFR/LP help all the world, and if MFR/LP only helped one country, another one should complain about the same thing, that MFR only help one country and they are restricted to it. I think this guy is fucking egocentric, and a jackass.
Well, the dude has a valid point that got lost amid his pointless bashing of the band and Chester with inaccurate information at that. His views of the band/Chester in regards to MFR and the goals of the organization is wrong.( Any idiot can look up MFR and see what they actually do.) But if applied to the United States government, i would say he is right on point. In my opinion anyways. There is a saying: "charity begins at home" and the U.S government have continuously failed to show that they are nothing but hypocrites after the events of Hurricane Katrina. Even as far back as world war 2 where they went into Germany to get rid of Hitler and rescue all the suffering Jews while having their very own concentration camps or is it the better sounding "internment camps" right in their own backyard with Japanese-Americans as the scape goats at the same damn time. Linkin Park have chosen to be global citizens(something everyone should aspire to be) but they're not superheroes. There are so many issues in the world. You can only choose one thing at a time to change no matter how much we wish to change everything at once. And i think Louis has covered the majority of points that can be made.