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SoCal school cancels MTV filming; officials cite Super Bowl show
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Posted on 02/05/2004 1:27:55 PM PST by chance33_98

SoCal school cancels MTV filming; officials cite Super Bowl show

(Laguna Beach-AP) -- School officials in Orange County are reneging on a plan to allow M-T-V to film a reality show with high school students.

The Laguna Beach Unified School District's board says the decision comes in light of the M-T-V-produced Super Bowl halftime performance when Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Janet Jackson's costume -- revealing her right breast.

Faced with opposition from angry parents the school board voted yesterday to forbid the network from filming the students.

Board members had tentatively approved the deal last week. It would have given the district as much as 40-thousand dollars plus royalties for college scholarships. They say they were worried the deal would not allow the district to protect students.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: mtv; nipplegate; superbowl; trashtv

1 posted on 02/05/2004 1:27:57 PM PST by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
Great! I hope MTV goes down the tubes.
Ops4 God Bless America!
2 posted on 02/05/2004 1:28:59 PM PST by OPS4
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To: chance33_98
Did they just figure out what MTV is?
3 posted on 02/05/2004 1:29:06 PM PST by Lost Highway (There's no stoppin the cretins from hoppin.)
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To: chance33_98
I find it hard to believe that they were going to exploit the students in this manner in the first place....

Oh wait, CALIFORNIA
4 posted on 02/05/2004 1:29:43 PM PST by alisasny (Thankyou to all who made 12/28 party so wonderful in NYC)
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To: chance33_98
All this fuss about one boob amidst a plethora of ads for hardon pills and a horse farting in a guy's face and a dog biting a guy's testicles.

I'd rather have the boob, fake or not.
5 posted on 02/05/2004 1:29:50 PM PST by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
That's a false choice.

I'll take none of it and be happy...

6 posted on 02/05/2004 1:53:05 PM PST by Damocles (sword of...)
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To: chance33_98
What kind of school district would have allowed this to begin with?
7 posted on 02/05/2004 2:52:40 PM PST by madprof98
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To: chance33_98
I'm not so sure that was a breast...kinda looked like a greasy hypothermic Norweigan warf rat
8 posted on 02/05/2004 3:00:01 PM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: madprof98
What kind of school district would have allowed this to begin with?

No kidding - have any of these people ever watched the MTV Spring Break specials, or an episode of The Real World? What a laugh the title of that show is.

9 posted on 02/05/2004 3:04:21 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: chance33_98
OK

You've all seen the email with the story of two cows for liberals, conservatives, socialists, etc.

Well, here is the latest update with two cows - California style.

CALIFORNIAN

You have a cow and a bull. The bull is depressed. It has spent its life living a lie. It goes away for two weeks. It comes back after a taxpayer-paid sex-change operation. You now have two cows. One makes milk; the other doesn't. You try to sell the transgender cow. Its lawyer sues you for discrimination. You lose in court. You sell the milk-generating cow to pay the damages. You now have one rich, transgender, non-milk-producing cow. You change your business to beef.

PETA pickets your farm. Jesse Jackson makes a speech in your driveway. Cruz Bustamante calls for higher farm taxes to help "working cows". Hillary Clinton calls for the nationalization of 1/7 of your farm "for the children". Gray Davis signs a law giving your farm to Mexico. The L.A. Times quotes five anonymous cows claiming you groped their teats. You declare bankruptcy and shut down all operations. The cow starves to death. The L.A. Times' analysis shows your business failure is Bush's fault.

10 posted on 02/05/2004 3:05:56 PM PST by N. Theknow (John Kerry is nothing more than Ted Kennedy without a dead girl in the car.)
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To: madprof98
What kind of school district would have allowed this to begin with?

Did you miss the last paragraph?

It would have given the district as much as 40-thousand dollars plus royalties for college scholarships.

11 posted on 02/05/2004 3:13:08 PM PST by Dianna
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To: swarthyguy
All this fuss about one boob amidst a plethora of ads for hardon pills and a horse farting in a guy's face and a dog biting a guy's testicles.

The Real World can pretty much be summed up thusly - take a bunch of skanky communist youth, put them in some rich liberal's beach mansion, feed them unlimited booze and drugs and then encourage them to strip naked and screw each other in front of the camera as often as they can. Up until now MTV settled with kids above the age of consent - like it or not, they're legally adults and are free to make idiotic decisions. But MTV seems to be trying to expand their sleaze reach into the pre-18 set. Can you actually say that you don't have a problem with this?

12 posted on 02/05/2004 3:19:36 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: chance33_98
I wish folks would stop focusing on JJ's TT...the entire halftime show was shameless and undignified. All of humanity was lowered a bit by the display.
13 posted on 02/05/2004 3:21:07 PM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: chance33_98
MTV is not what it was 15 or 16 years ago. It is no longer music television. Blame Judy McGrath
14 posted on 02/05/2004 3:32:05 PM PST by PointRight
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To: OPS4
It's happening! Thank God!
15 posted on 02/05/2004 3:35:17 PM PST by Hildy
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To: PointRight
Houston talk host--I DON'T Want My MTV:

In the wake of the Super Bowl scandal (Jackson, Timberlake, et al), talk radio host Dan Patrick (no, not the ESPN guy) of KSEV Houston is leading a move to have parents delete MTV from their TV, one way or another. He appeared on the syndicated Laura Ingraham show (which has KSEV as an affiliate).

From the KSEV website:
"STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK AGAINST MTV...LET'S TURN OFF MTV IN HOUSTON....JUST TAKE YOUR REMOTE AND GO TO DELETE CHANNELS....DELETE MTV AND CHANGE THE PASSWORD SO YOUR KIDS CAN'T WATCH....STAND UP TO YOUR KIDS...THEY WON'T BE HAPPY,BUT YOU MUST HOLD FIRM.... DO YOU WANT YOUR SONS AND ESPECIALLY YOUR DAUGHTERS EXPOSED TO THIS CONSTANT BARRAGE OF ATTACKS ON YOUR VALUES........THEN SCROLL BELOW AND CONTACT THE NFL AND CBS....ALSO CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATOR AND DEMAND THAT THE FCC GET TOUGH WITH THOSE WHO WANT TO COME INTO YOUR HOME AND DESTROY YOUR FAMILY VALUES

KSEV

16 posted on 02/07/2004 12:13:25 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio
(a song about MTV from punksters the Dead Kennedys,
for heaven's sake...):

Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, Woof down the beer

Hi
I'm your video DJ
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go

My job is to help destroy
What's left of your imagination
By feeding you endless doses
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

So don't create
Be sedate
Be a vegetable at home
And thwack on that dial
If we have our way even you will believe
This is the future of rock and roll

M.T.V. Get off the
M.T.V. Get off the
M.T.V. Get off the air
Get off the air

See the latest rejects from the muppet show
Wag their (expletive) and their (expletive)
As they lip-synch on screen
There's something I don't like
About a band who always smiles...

And so it was
Our beloved corporate gods
Claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
As commercial TV has in 25 ...

Tin-eared
Graph-paper brained accountants
Instead of music fans
Call all the shots at giant record companies now

The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty
Forget creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest
That's the name of the game

But sales are slumping
And no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

M.T.V.?Get off the air!
NOW

--Dead Kennedys
17 posted on 02/07/2004 12:18:21 AM PST by raccoonradio
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