The article goes into some detail about why pretentious wank-cretins Chumbawumba were utterly shit and beneath contempt... some people may have felt that was stating the obvious a little...

if you have a spare hour or so to read this article then it's quite interesting - and i can say that i've experienced a similar "view from within" as the original author in said piece (who happened to be based in Leeds, but you could say it's the same all over the uk - i certainly witnessed aspects of this in Sheff)

trouble is, this is just an insular argument... which is exactly what IMC should be avoiding in an attempt to reach out to REAL people who don't happen to be part of the ghetto (or radical playground of toytown revolutionaries).

plus it was written almost ten years ago now!

The post was reported as being hidden for non-news content here:

 http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-sheffield/2004-March/001441.html

The internal comment was that it was that it was hidden since it is a direct repost of a very old article:

 http://www.openlyclassist.org.uk/educating.htm

If you want to argue about it take it up on the email list (not that I expect you will get much sympathy...).

I fact as far as I can remember Mozaz has posted this here before...

Mozaz in case you haven't seen the UK Editorial Guidelines they are here:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/editorial.html

Mozaz, in case you are unaware, you generally breach these ones:

* Repeated : content that is reposted or text that was originally a comment posted as a report.

* Non-news : posts which are clearly purely comment, opinion or rants unrelated to a recent event or action etc.

* Advertising : posts with personal or product promotions.

* Disruptive : Contributions by individuals who habitually publish above mentioned discouraged content. Posts where topical or regional selections disrupts the utility of the sub pages (ie spamming regional and topic selections).

This post is now going to be hidden...