[Elle Bee]

The following are Viacom owned companies. A conservative parent's worst nightmare.

Remember Simon & Schuster who paid Hillary $8 million for her book & CBS did that lovely hatchet job on President Reagan with Mr. Streisand.

It all makes sense.

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[leadpenny]

I wish I could find the comment by a thoughtful FReeper on one of the Super Bowl Boob threads. It pointed out the mother of all ironies. The same folks who produce this trash are generally the ones who hate W and are against the War on Terroism. At the same time, those who want us dead, want us dead because of the folks who produce this trash.

[Fledermaus]

Really! This is getting out of hand.

If I want porn I'll download it from the internet or go to an adult book store.

It has no business on TV. Of course, discount the dozens of shows that revolve around soft porn and tasteless, talentless, bad writing jokes.

[martin_fierro]

Hey, Judy. Show us yer t*ts.

On second thought, don't.

[bobjam]

The most important thing is to educate parents of the MTV target audience. Many of those parents watched MTV in the early 80's when the channel simply showed videos. They may not entirely be aware of what it has become now.

It's ironic to think that the network that produced that halftime show is the same one that, years ago, forever banned Andrew Dice Clay for telling too many dirty jokes at their awards show.

[Biblebelter]

I am bipartisan because I have equal contempt for both parties. One reason is because of cable television. They are for all practical purposes a taxing body. I do not believe in censorship. But I do not believe in being taxed on my cable bill by paying for networks that I do not watch. I would like to subscribe to cable or satellite and pay for only the channels that I do watch. As it is, I never watch MTV or three quarters of the channels that I am forced to subscribe to, but I pay for all this trash. I would like to see some of these trashy channels survive in a free unsubsidized market. Hey, you boys and girls in the Republican Party who tow the free trade line, why don't you make cable and satellite and unsubsidized marketplace? Could it be that the babblings of Mr. Nader have some truth in them and politicians serve their corporate masters before they serve those who elect them?

[FormerACLUmember]

One of the IslamoFascist repeated claims is that America is the decadent Great Satan, hell bent on destroying the morals of the world, and which must be (therefore) utterly destroyed.

Thank you Viacom, for creating another million or so new IslamoFascist recruits with one fell swoop. The mad mullahs also have only to show any random 10 minutes of MTV, and there are new suicide bombers lining up to destroy America.

I hope you enjoy the ten million dollars you made on your half-time show. Oh and thanks also for your recent hatchet job on Reagan.

[Pietro]

"....but we're less sanguine about the long-term effects of the daily sex diet that Ms. McGrath is feeding poorly supervised youngsters."

This is an excellent point. The children in a poorly supervised home are fed a constant barrage of this bilge and are therefore more likely to engage in dangerous practices at a young age. The human damage resulting from this is incalculable.

At what point does the media become accountable? This is an industry where Howard "fart joke" Stern is the arbiter of taste.

The public airwaves have been kidnapped by morally bankrupt individuals who have no qualms broadcasting disgusting and dispicable depravity. They have turned the public square into an open sewer. And are quite proud of themselves!

Perhaps the executives of Viacom will allow me to into their homes and wave my genitals at THEIR children.

[SamAdams76]

All of the porn stuff aside for a moment, exactly what is the appeal of recording artists "grabbing" their crotches while belting out their tunes and having a bunch of half-naked dancers all around them bumping and grinding in some kind of really weird choreographed manner? I mean, think of the hours they must practice this kind of stuff. Don't they have to pay all those "dancers"? What do they add to the musical performance that makes it worth the huge amount of money it must cost to put such a production together? And what about the grabbing of the crotch by the main performer? How does that add to the music? Maybe somebody out there can explain that to me. I find it disgusting and repugnant. But others apparently think it is very entertaining. Is there anybody here who thinks that grabbing the crotch during a performance is entertaining and is there anybody here who comes away from a pop concert disappointed because the main performer didn't have scores of half-naked dancers in leather straps and buckles bumping and grinding? I really would like to know.

Speaking of MTV, I was an early fan of the "music video" back in the early 1980s when this whole thing (with videos) got started. Back then, videos were mostly fun to watch. Then, around the time of Michael Jackson's Thriller album, the videos started getting really weird, with those choreographed half-naked dancers bumping and grinding. I think it was Michael Jackson that started the "crotch-grabbing" phenomenon as well. Really weird stuff. What do people see in that?

I used to go to rock concerts when I was young. I'd see The Cars, Jackson Browne, U2 (when they were just a young Irish band and Bono was not yet trying to save the world), Molly Hatchet, REO Speedwagon - those were a few of the bands I remember seeing. All these acts had pretty good songs and they played straight ahead rock and roll. No half-naked dancers bumping and grinding. No crotch-grabbing. No kids "moshing" up front. I feel so...innocent.

[ruiner]

Oh man, not Star Trek. Please, I'll boycott anything but Star Trek.

Although they have made it easy over the past few years ;)

[mikegi]

I don't understand all the soft porn on TV these days (MTV videos, etc.). I know otherwise-respectable people who think "Sex in the City" is great. To me, it's a waste of time. If I want to see porn, I'll rent a real porn video. Otherwise, I want to see a comedy or sci-fi or a action movie.

[TomServo]

Bump....

[Helms]

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Media Guru: Judy McGrath, President, MTV Group and Chairman, Interactive Music

Judy McGrath, longtime executive and creative leader of MTV, is our guest at March's Media Guru breakfast. In her present position, McGrath is in charge of MTV: Music Television and MTV2, as well as MTV Networks' music Internet operations – mtv.com, vh1.com and sonicnet.com.

Under her direction, MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom, has grown from a maverick cable channel to a maverick global brand. From the beginning Ms. McGrath has helped MTV bring the creativity of music, to television. She and her team have developed programs and events that have become cultural landmarks to young people everywhere: the Video Music Awards, the MTV Movie Awards, Total Request Live, and The Real World.

A member of the MTV family since 1981, she joined Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company (WASEC), MTV Networks’ predecessor company as Copywriter, On-Air Promotion, MTV. She subsequently moved up the ranks in numerous jobs, including Co-President and Creative Director: MTV and President, MTV: Music Television and MTV2, where she managed all business and creative functions at the networks. Under her creative leadership MTV broke into political news coverage with its award winning 1992 “Choose or Lose” political awareness campaign, and tackled the issue of tolerance around the world with “Free Your Mind.”

Friday, March 8, 2002
Location: The Harvard Club, 27 West 44th St. (between 5th & 6th), Slocum Room, New York
Time: 7:30 AM breakfast
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Organizers: Ruth Jarmul ’75, Ava Seave ’82, Marta Bialek ’96

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[the_devils_advocate_666]

I already sent the FCC my email... but damn, I like some of the shows on the Comedy Central.