I worked my way through all the links to get to the original vulture being cited.
I have a similar theory about this.
MTV was born in 1981 with TV commercials ‘call your cable provider and shout I want my MTV’
For the first few years (5 to 10) it presented a wholesome view of rock videos to white middle class kids, I remember it being on at my college union center all day and being very popular with white college kids (not a lib arts school either) . Example A : cutie girl next door Martha Quinn.
About a decade or so later something happened, it got darker and sleazier and more liberal, rock the vote.
My theory is that cable finally extended through the cities, something it took more time to do given it required separate cables and massive infrastructure changes compared to houses in suburbs .
Then then wrong people overwhelmed the music business with money.
And it became the cesspool it is today promoting crap to America’s children.
Cyrus was right on the MTV winning theme. Racism? She gives them what they demand.
MTV actually took some hits in its first two years that it was “too white” I remember those early years, the VJs, the great music/videos. Michael Jackson’s Thriller broke the ice as I recall the history. But IMO MTV got slammed as did music lovers evrywhere when music died by the end of the 80s and “rap” took over. NO doubt MTV helped push the slease and decay, and you are right, it’s a shadow of its former self. I don’t know anyone who watches it.
Music has unfortunately declined to where kids today can’t begin to appreciate it like older generations. Cyrus is just the latest of the shock factor sleaze that doesn’t care about anyone but the PR and hopefully $$$ that follows. Look at that slut WhoreDonna ....no one wants her, she’s trash and that is how Cyrus will wind up.
Oh, please. A lot of the worst stuff on MTV was done by white people, including Madonna. And a lot of their worst TV shows were with white people, including Beavis and Butthead (done by white people).