MTV keeps on rockin'

Townhall ^ | March 18, 2005 | Rebecca Hagelin

[mowowie]

I was over my 7 year old nieces house the othe day and put a code block on MTV and VH1 on all the Cable boxes. We don't need her brainwashed and walking around dressed and acting like a bimbo by the age of 12.
Those channels are complete garbage.

[scab4faa]

And everyone of us that pay for cable or sat. pay to keep MTV on the air.

[BrianCG]

"...he’s also the president of the Media Research Center and the nation’s leading expert on all things media."

AKA: A dude who watches alot of TV

[Moose4]

I heard they actually played music videos once, back in the Paleolithic Era.

}:-)4

[FearlessFreep]

True. Ever since Remote Control aired, it has been downhill.

[Radioactive]

MTV should not be part of the basic programming. It should be an elected service.

The continual jumping back and forth, never staying on one scene for more than 10 seconds can hypnotise youngsters and keep them glued to the screen.

This left wing crap that is MTV should be rated X and never allowed for anyone under the age of 18.

[wideawake]

The MTV style of cinematography has totally pervaded global cinema. In the 1970s movies had probably one-third or one-fourth as many camera cuts as a contemporary movie.

It's almost inconceivable to us today that The Maltese Falcon was considered a fast-paced, action-packed ride at the time - but it was.

[EdReform]

Ping

[kittymyrib]

MTV and several other low-down channels wouldn't be in business if we had the right to select the channels we want to pay for. The minute a company allows channel choice, I'm dropping Dish and switching. I suspect millions of other subscribers to cable and satellite nets would join me. We only watch about a dozen channels out of the 100, mostly junk, channels we are paying for.

[jaydubya2]

I suggest you do the same for BET. I was surfing channels last night and BET was showing music videos. I've seen less skin and provocative dancing at a strip club. I was shocked, and I'm not easily shocked!

[reagan_fanatic]

Boys watch for an average of 6.6 hours per week and girls watch for an average of 6.2 hours per week

Not in my house. I used to watch MTV in the 80's when it actually played music videos, and while some of them were a little trashy, they are nothing compared to the sexually-explicit garbage that is played now.

Untill they clean up their act, both MTV and VH1 will continue to be banned in my house.

[jaydubya2]

It was so much easier in the days of only broadcast TV!

[Hildy]

I worked on the first season of Remote Control as a question writer!

[Dunstan McShane]

I was talking once with a student from Korea (ROK). We were talking about certain differences between Korean and English (the languages), and she mentioned her uneasiness in speaking English, because there is no specific and respectful form for "you" as addressed to elders. "In Korea," she explained, "there are many ways of showing respect to one's elders, traditional and respectful ways of behaving in public, of dressing in public--or there used to be. Things began to change a few years ago."

"What happened?" I asked.

"We got MTV," she said.

(Unfortunately, not joking here.)

[eyespysomething]

1985

[cyborg]

OMG!!!!! You're famous :-)

[cyborg]

I watch MTV and BET and watch most all of the reality shows on MTV and BET's College Hill which is far better than Real World in RW's current form. If people don't want their kids watching tv then don't have a tv. Just get broadcast tv.

[CFC__VRWC]

MTV, VH1, etc. are all blocked on my sat receiver, as are all the CNN channels.

[cyborg]

I remember when MTV first started. Very different right?