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12/19/2007, 03:25 PM
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MTV: What Da Heck Has Happened?
For reasons still unknown to me, I left my office TV tuned to MTV during the last few shifts at work. I realize it's been a long time since MTV (Music Television) actually dealt with with music, news and video arts, but I was left bored and more than a little disgusted by the program content.
Exposed, Next, The Hills, A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila and The Real World.....my IQ permanently dropped 50 points just having these shows running in the background. Have I just gotten old and cranky, or do these shows truly suck? My kids are in their twenties and thankfully didn't spend much time watching MTV, but what I saw now instead of music and videos was non-stop graphic sexual innuendo from 18 year-olds, bleeped-out foul language and bed hopping with no regard for feelings, risk or consequences. I'm not sheltered by any means. In fact, much of my day is spent dealing with the seamy underbelly of society and the consequences of bad behavior, but I'm frankly disappointed by the American media corporations filling the airwaves with such fare aimed at teens. Not surprised, not shocked, but disappointed. |
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12/19/2007, 03:28 PM
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Unfortunately pandering pays.
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12/19/2007, 03:39 PM
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You're not alone. I've watched the empire known as MTV come crumbling down before my very eyes. You see, I was a child of the eighties. I grew up with MTV. I watched a lot of MTV in my teen years, but less and less often as the music videos began to fade away. It's to the point that I don't watch it any more, refuse to watch it, and relish not watching it. Though I despise MTV now, I would actually start watching again if they had decent music videos. I lost all faith in MTV after I noticed TRL's Top 10 stopped showing the entire video and it was just a bunch of screaming girls chasing Carson Daily.
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12/19/2007, 03:42 PM
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sex sells and violence leads, untill people stop watching it they will continue to pander to what sells.
Fighting to get stuff off the air by making rules and such doesn't work, it makes people want to watch it more and more to thumb thier noses at society and to be a rebel. until people just stop watching it will only get worse. Thing is tv and movies have slowly went down hill for over the past 20 years and its been a slow process so people adcept it, i dare you to show someone a movie from 20 years ago that was rated R and another one from today rated R and them not exclaim that the 1980 movie should have been rated PG (or even G) by todays standards. ok off soap box
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12/19/2007, 03:43 PM
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oh yeah and I am a meer kid at 26 so - I'm not some old guy reliving the glory days
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12/19/2007, 04:11 PM
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I have seen less than 1 hour of MTV since Beavis & Butthead ended, and I didn't much care for what I saw. I think the programming is a sign of the times. When things are going down the toilet, the downward motion accelerates as the whirlpool gets deeper. There seems to be an element of "can you top this" when it comes to pushing the limits.
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12/19/2007, 04:29 PM
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How do you take the power away from obsenity? No longer make it obsene. New Millenia, new rules, new world. It is not one that I like or I am used to but it is the one we will have to live in. If you don't like it do what you can to change it just like Aristotle, Franklin, DaVinci, Einstien , Lincoln, King Jr and the people you have never heard of that make changes every day including the producers of MTV.
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12/19/2007, 05:11 PM
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Re: MTV: What Da Heck Has Happened?
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you're just now finding this out! in bermuda, there is no music channel worth watching.
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12/19/2007, 05:56 PM
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Well, you know you're over 30 when you prefer VH1 to MTV.
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12/19/2007, 06:39 PM
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12/19/2007, 06:47 PM
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12/19/2007, 06:52 PM
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12/19/2007, 06:57 PM
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I actually liked the first season of The Surreal Life. Ok, let me qualify that, I watched it for a few minutes before changing the channel, which is more than I can say for other "reality" shows.
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12/19/2007, 10:17 PM
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12/19/2007, 10:24 PM
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12/19/2007, 10:30 PM
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Been a while!!!!!
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12/19/2007, 11:31 PM
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Have we become our parents? 
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12/19/2007, 11:37 PM
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some of those shows suck
i like the hills for a few reasons 1)good convo starter with the ladies 2)hot girls other then that its pointless
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12/20/2007, 01:59 AM
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I watch older shows on TV Land, MASH and some of the old movies on Turner Classics and Fox Movie Channel...no commercials on those channels either
I am only 41, but I really like the shows of the 60s-70s like Combat, Hawaii Five O, Sanford and Son, Mannix, etc, etc. I watched MTV in the early 80's as a teen and thought it was OK for a couple years and then it got wierd with Michael Jackson and Wierd Al Yankovic and then I gave up on it
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