As backlash against the Galway Girl hitmaker continues, Classic Hits Radio, which is based in Ireland, announced its decision to remove Ed’s music in response to “reaction from our listeners.” Dave Kelly, group program director at Bay Broadcasting, which runs the station, said in a statement, "Our decision to remove Ed Sheeran’s music from the Classic Hits Radio playlist has been carefully considered.
"It is not intended as a personal judgment on Ed Sheeran, and we acknowledge his own explanation of the circumstances surrounding recent events. As an independent Irish-owned radio station, however, we believe it is important to listen to our audience and to stand alongside Irish artists who have made what is undoubtedly a significant professional decision based on their own convictions.
“Ultimately, our position is a simple one. We believe in peace, humanity and respect, and in the right of people and artists to express and act upon their sincerely held views. In light of the strength of feeling expressed by our listeners and the decisions taken by Irish artists involved in the tour, we believe removing Ed Sheeran’s music from our playlist is the appropriate decision for Classic Hits Radio at this time.”
It is not intended as a personal judgment on Ed Sheeran
It’s okay to judge people for enabling genocide. He’s a greedy, spineless coward.
I hope he is unable to visit Ireland again
Good on the listeners who had to of called in for this to happen, but that’s one slippery PR statement if I’ve ever seen one. Managed to not mention Israel or Palestine once.
“who had to of called in”
I don’t even know what you were trying to write there, but you failed real bad.
Really? It’s a very very common error. “Had to’ve” being a contraction of “had to have” is a less common version of “could of” or “should of” instead of “could’ve” or “should’ve”, because the “'ve” part sounds like “of” when spoken.
So they are saying the listeners “who had to have called in for this to happen”.
To be fair, it’s a pretty epic failure not to know the difference.
It’s really not an epic fail, no. We learn by reading, by speaking. If you hear someone say “could’ve”, it sounds identical to “could of”. It’s a very understandable mistake.
It sounding similar doesn’t change the fact HAVE and OF are not synonyms.
Firstable, alot of people make innocent errors and mispellings, when they type fast, haven’t learned good language yet, use and hear phrases but never seen them written out, ect. Irregardless, they mustard up the courage and took their time to share they’re thoughts, which were rather clear and understandable, for all intensive purposes. I imagine your original response to this misunderstanding was an attempt to nip it in the butt, but most Lemmings who understood the message could care less.
Categorizing this example as “a pretty epic failure” is prohibitively harsh, and only serves to make Lemmings less likely to post if they aren’t totally confident in their mastery of whichever language they’re using. In fact, I’d argue that your use of “to be fair” is inaccurate as it is not a fair assessment, mainly due to your overexaggerated condemnation of an error that plenty of other users easily parsed.
More to the point, to be fair, “had to have [past participle],” or a past modal, is a rather unintuitive part of speech, and I’d argue that its clunky nature is why people are less likely to read it than to have heard it conversationally. As a child, people heard “you shouldn’t’ve done that,” and adopted it as a part of speech, but many people never took the time to break down the meaning of the phrase. English isn’t exactly the easiest language (e.g., our obsession with inverting sentences for dramatic effect), so it’s unsurprising when malapropisms appear in the wild, or are all smashed into one mildly irritating paragraph like the first one in this comment.
If your goal is to educate other users and attempt to slow down the ever-evolving nature of language, simple suggestions and courteous comments tend to work better than labeling an innocent comment as a failure. If you truly didn’t understand part of a comment, insulting the commenter is unlikely to garner a response. Your comments only serve to restrict how approachable users find Lemmy, or to prove that you are indeed the smartest one in the conversation.
You lost me at “mustard up the courage”, but thanks for the chuckle.
burn in hell zionist muppet
First of all, I am not zionist, and second of all, I do not believe in hell. I’m just a man who occasionally pretends to read comments as though they are directed at him for silly comedic effect.
Ahaaah, you had me in the first half Ngl 😂
And if you don’t believe in a place of eternal fire and torture, that is your prerogative
… could you make a teeensy exception in this case? :3
heh, but on a serious note, that’s why I support getting fascist leaders like Trump into a bare, small cell that contains a shitty hard bed, a metal toilet, and a sink. No commissary, just standard prison food. And twenty four hours every single day to rot in their brain, thinking about what they did, knowing that they will never leave that cell for the rest of their lives, and since the afterlife doesn’t exist, that means literally the rest of their entire existence is spending 100% of their time locked in that cell, never to leave it ever again. Never to see the sun, the sky again. Never to have the benefit of money again. Served shitty food, rotting with their thoughts.
I’d say that’s hell.
Pure virtue signalling.
I have them on in work almost everyday and I’ve yet to hear them play a song of his to begin with.
virtue signalling.
Little makes me think less of someone than the use of this term.
It’s a radio station. Signaling is kinda their whole thing.
Get out!
Lucky you, not hearing the dulcet tones of a wailing twat.
It’s bad enough having to see that face, let alone be reminded that the cunt made music.
Still great, though
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