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Join Date: Oct 2004
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2007-08-27, 10:34

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Originally Posted by Engine Joe View Post
"Jeremy" was banned? I remember seeing it all the time when it came out. It was in high rotation for about a year. Why ban it once it was old news?
Well, sort of. According to Wikipedia:
MTV restrictions on violent imagery prevented Mark Pellington from showing Jeremy putting the gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger at the climax of the video ... this footage was edited with a zoom effect for the MTV version of the video so the gun was not visible. Pellington also shot a slightly different take of the classroom Pledge of Allegiance sequence. In the MTV version of the video there is a brief shot of Jeremy's classmates making a gesture that could be either the American Bellamy salute or the Nazi Hitler salute, but the original footage shows a Nazi flag with a swastika in the background of the classroom ... After the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, the video was banned for a time.

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