Can MTV Stay Cool? (Another lib icon in trouble?)

Business Week ^ | 2/9/6 | Business Week

[D-Chivas]

What a boring article.

[voletti]

Yeah. Even I couldn't get myself to read half of it... The lib icon in trouble thing was more a hope than a declarationn...

[dfwgator]

To keep up the momentum after Bill Clinton won, they decided to host an official inaugural ball. Certain that Clinton would never show, McGrath says she was taken aback when she got word "about halfway through the show that Elvis is in the building," she recalls. "Clinton walks in, gets onstage, and says, 'MTV had everything to do with my election.' It was the best."

That's all you need to know.

[End Times Sentinel]

Her mother, Ann, read The Catcher in the Rye to her when she was seven and explained to Judy that the nuns at her Catholic grade school weren't always right...

And little Judy grew up to do more than 99% of the population in destroying traditional values and replacing them with things like atheism, gay marriage, feminism, multi-culturalism and socialism.  We owe you quite a debt, Chuck and Ann.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[siunevada]

Don't you have to be cool to stay cool?

[TXBSAFH]

I like MTV, when they played music. I have not watched them in years.

[Screamname]

"Nearly 40 years ago, in a blue-collar Irish neighborhood in Scranton, Pa., Judy McGrath fell in love with music."

Ironic that she would become CEO of something that completely destroyed it.

[madprof98]

And little Judy grew up to do more than 99% of the population in destroying traditional values and replacing them with things like atheism, gay marriage, feminism, multi-culturalism and socialism. We owe you quite a debt, Chuck and Ann.

Well put. (But she had plenty of help from the other 99%, including all too many with parents like Chuck and Ann.)

[Mr. Brightside]

MTV... isn't that the channel that used to play music videos?

[TChris]

Stay? MTV hasn't been cool for at least fifteen years.

[dfwgator]

The only good thing MTV has had is Beavis and Butthead and Kennedy (The Republican VJ, not Ted).

[advance_copy]

If ever a thread needed more cowbell it is this one.

[Antoninus]

Her mother, Ann, read The Catcher in the Rye to her when she was seven...

If you ask me, that's child abuse.

[bert]

It's Business Week.... Not a credible source.

[Wolfie]

I like MTV, when they played music. I have not watched them in years.

MTV was cool when they played nothing but videos. Now it sucks. VH1, same thing. My sister-in-law has VH1 Classic via satellite. Last year we visited and I was blown away by the videos. It was 1982 all over again. It was really entertaining. Went back this year, and now VH1 Classic has dumped the videos in favor of bad programming.

[steelcurtain]

I really don't want to see the music videos, considering the current crop of music sucks, but wouldn't mind watching a few hours of "Pimp My Ride." :^)

[Hemingway's Ghost]

When was MTV anything but a lowest-common-denominator dorkfest?

[safeasthebanks]

Ah yes, Business Week....

The business world as written about by a bunch of communists!

I cancelled my subscription after about three issues!

[camle]

can't "Stay" what they never were.