Posted on 01/23/2011 6:21:37 PM PST by Nachum
What if one day you went to work and there was a meeting to discuss whether the project you were working on crossed the line into child pornography? You’d probably think you had ended up in the wrong room. And you’d be right. Last week, my colleague Brian Stelter reported that on Tuesday, the day after the pilot episode of “Skins” was shown on MTV, executives at the cable channel were frantically meeting to discuss whether the salacious teenage drama starring actors as young as 15 might violate federal child pornography statutes.
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Like the left cares.
They encourage this stuff.
If the question has to be asked then, “yes”, it most likely was child porn. If any of the actors were under 18 MTV should have known (or did know/didn’t care) they were beyond pushing the envelope.
Of course they knew. Are they trying to suggest that nobody watched the show until it went on the air?
MTV has been in the forefront of degrading our culture and seducing kids ever since they first went on the air.
And they think Talk Radio is bad??????????
EXACTLY....I was watching the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich last night...they showed/explained camps teen girls and boys would go to (separately)....but, then the leaders would take them swimming nude...together....80% of girls ended up pregnant...they were referred to as “Hitler’s Wives” I believe. This SKINS is soooo disgusting. I want the adults brought up on charges.
Indeed. MTV executives were shocked, shocked that child pornography was going on here.
I am sure most feminazis not only encourage sex for their prepubescent girls but hold said girls down to experience it from their “uncles.”
In a less-enlightened culture this would be called rape, but for liberals this is called “encouragement.”
“Old” tv, like Father Knows Best or Ozzie and Harriet didn’t necessarily show life as it was, but it showed life as an ideal. If we lived in “less than ideal” houses, we had an example to live up to.
Contemporary tv likes “keeping it real” and showing the dark underbelly of life. Gives us all something to live down to.
Sad commentary......
In Kalipornia I hear there are nudist camps for teens, no parents allowed. Whats the worst that could happen, right? 13 year old girls and boys up to 19 and the perverted councilors of course. No, no problems could ever arise from that. /s
...remember several years ago when those geniuses at the NFL turned the halftime show over to MTV?....they thought it would be cool to show Janet Jackson’s boob?....and no, it wasn’t a wardrobe malfunction....they did it on purpose; and then tried to say it was unintentional....MTV are jerks.
“MTV has been in the forefront of degrading our culture and seducing kids ever since they first went on the air.”
That’s not true. Back in the good old days, MTV stood for Music TeleVision. They were basically a radio station with video. They played music videos and concerts and such. Their “news” consisted of blurbs about the bands. They were quite fun, and quite harmless. They didn’t get involved in politics, leftist causes, or produce and present programs that had nothing to do with music.
They are nothing like that anymore, though.
Now they mostly suck. And yes they are mostly evil.
MTV has been on the road to this insane smut and pornography for quite some time. They have been pushing the limits for years now.
What I’m trying to figure out - when did “MTV” - which USE to stand for “Music Television” basically dump the music for flat-out smut?
But you know what??? If the millions of people in this nation that CLAIM to be Christian (or even claim to be good, moral people...) would stand up and resolve to dump their cable or satellite provider if they don’t put a stop to it - and then follow through - this would be resolved quickly. No contract to carry a network is worth millions of customers cutting the cables and telling them where to stick it.
But how do you think we got to this point? Those same folks have sat idle-by for way too long.
What really creeped me out was the way one of those Girls worded her letter to her parents, creepy!
That was a very informative program, I have never seen a documentary strictly from a Nazi perspective. Though My Father is German (and Jewish) he never mentions the Nazi's (Born Long after the end of the war) and when I was studying over at the University of Stuttgart they N-E-V-E-R talk about Hitler or the Nazi's, I guess there are some things you realize you didn't know until after you know them!
Horse. Barn Door.
I don't have a TV service for more than 10 years now. I personally don't need to see most of the stuff they are showing; if there is something worth seeing then I'm sure photos and YouTube will cover that well enough. For the rest of the news and discussions, it's text - just like on FR. There is very little reason to watch someone talking.
But people with larger, diverse families can't just elect to pull the plug - someone *will* be unhappy. And unhappy you can't have nowadays. Forget the old patriarchal ways of life when the man of the house was the sole arbiter of how things are done here. Today your child will sue you and win.
It's even worse when channels are sold as huge packages. You may never watch MTV, but once you paid for the package the MTV gets its share whether you like it or not.
There is probably a million people who don't watch a certain channel. The TV companies don't care - they know that they can't please everyone, and they don't even try. Instead they please their base. For the rest ... there are other channels, perhaps owned by the same financial group, that cater to other audiences. All in all, everyone is covered.
The program “The Real World” was the beginning of the end of the “music” in MTV. It turned out that the audience wanted to see themselves on television not music on television. I also imagine that the downturn in the music business first with Napster and then iTunes crimping the budgets for videos led to the decision to out more and more nonmusic programming on MTV.
MTV has been in the forefront of degrading our culture and seducing kids ever since they first went on the air.
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Yes, and they are quite proud of themselves.
I saw ads for this on cable. They looked like they were 14 or 15. I’m skipping it.
The whole show was creepy, but educational....but, something I thought EVERY highschool/college student should be required to watch.
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