Viacom's Porn Channel - There's a reason so many teenagers want their MTV ~ WSJ.

The Wall Street Journal. ^ | February 4,2004 | The Wall Street Journal. Editorial Board

[Elle Bee]

So the entire world has now got a taste of what passes for entertainment on MTV every day. That was our reaction to the furor over the MTV-produced Super Bowl halftime show, which network President Judy McGrath described as "exciting" and "great" and marred only by "five seconds none of us knew anything about."

[lsucat]

Great point. When I was in SE Asia a couple of years ago, I was shocked by how tame MTV Asia was.

[fml]

The most important thing is to educate parents of the MTV target audience. Many of those parents watched MTV in the early 80's when the channel simply showed videos. They may not entirely be aware of what it has become now.

Any parent too stupid to know what MTV is about today is far beyond being educated. Speaking as a parent of 3 in that target audience, I am very please to say mine don't watch that garbage.

[cyborg]

oddly enough this also transcends to magazines... I stopped buying a lot of American magazines because it's getting really smutty but the British versions aren't. British teen girls mags are really girl mags, and Seventeen Magazine is a guide for college sex.

[fml]

LOL...that picture and your tag line go good together.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

"those who want us dead, want us dead because of the folks who produce this trash."

The Muslim terrorists who want us dead, want us dead because we are not Muslim period. However, this type of behavior does not help.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

"Unfortunately, the trashiest and most perverse MTV material is reserved for American youth, by huge and inarguable margin."

"Interesting. I wonder why."

If you want to look at the spiritual side of it - America is/was a Christian nation. This country sends out the most missionaries to the world. This "world" hates Jesus. According to scripture, once the world has heard the gospel Satan's time is up. If you can corrupt the youth, you have the next generation of adults. "Men" were created in God's image which Satan also hates. If our sexuality becomes perverted as the norm there will be fewer adults who are still fertile due to STD's and fewer families staying intact.

[N. Theknow]

It has no business on TV. Of course, discount the dozens of shows that revolve around soft porn and tasteless, talentless, bad writing jokes.

The one and only time I ever watched Sienfeld, it had a character on there who had urinated in the men's communal shower at a health club. He was confronted by another patron of the club who saw him. Sienfeld was defending him.

After about five minutes of wondering why there was a laugh track for this, I changed the channel and told Mrs. Theknow that I was just too old for network television because in my wildest imagination I couldn't picture Ricky Ricardo defending Fred Mertz or Ralph Kramden defending Ed Norton or Rob Petrie defending Buddy Sorrel or Andy defending Barney for pissing in the shower at a men's health club.

After watching the Super Bowl as we were driving home, I reminded her of this and said after seeing the halftime and some of the commercials for the game that I had not gotten any younger.

[Aquinasfan]

I guess it was to be expected that all of the media would focus on the "breast" when in fact the whole damn half time show was pathetic. It really makes you despair about the future.

In the near term, anyway. Although seeing things as they are is just plain realism.

[TomServo]

Bump....

[Aquinasfan]

The answer to this is to bring Sumner Redstone before a Congressional committee to answer for the garbage his Viacom places on television. It would be nice to see that creep being grilled like some gangster mafioso

Absolutely. He's a creep.

[Helms]

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Judy McGrath, longtime executive and creative leader of MTV, is our guest at March's Media Guru breakfast. In her present position, McGrath is in charge of MTV: Music Television and MTV2, as well as MTV Networks' music Internet operations – mtv.com, vh1.com and sonicnet.com.

Under her direction, MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom, has grown from a maverick cable channel to a maverick global brand. From the beginning Ms. McGrath has helped MTV bring the creativity of music, to television. She and her team have developed programs and events that have become cultural landmarks to young people everywhere: the Video Music Awards, the MTV Movie Awards, Total Request Live, and The Real World.

A member of the MTV family since 1981, she joined Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company (WASEC), MTV Networks’ predecessor company as Copywriter, On-Air Promotion, MTV. She subsequently moved up the ranks in numerous jobs, including Co-President and Creative Director: MTV and President, MTV: Music Television and MTV2, where she managed all business and creative functions at the networks. Under her creative leadership MTV broke into political news coverage with its award winning 1992 “Choose or Lose” political awareness campaign, and tackled the issue of tolerance around the world with “Free Your Mind.”

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[mywholebodyisaweapon]

AAAARRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! - (simulated Howard Dean meltdown primal scream) . . .

[Helms]

I want to know if she is a lesbian or not. I want to know if she considers herself a feminist. She attended Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA and is now a full fledged Po-Mo "Cultural Producer". Judy, Judy, Judy..

[NormsRevenge]

"It was the breast of times.. It was the worst of times." 8-D

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Mike Shelton - OC Register

[baltodog]

Any parent that doesn't know what MTV shows is a retard who should have their kids taken from them.

[dsc]

Have you noticed that virtually every movie made in recent years has worked in a gratuitious scene of male urination?

I'm trying to think of a movie that didn't, and all I can come up with is Mel Gibson movies.

[N. Theknow]

Harry Potter?

[oceanview]

I just cannot understand why these parents just don't block out the channel on their cable box, its easy to do.

[stands2reason]

I'd see The Cars, Jackson Browne, U2 (when they were just a young Irish band and Bono was not yet trying to save the world), Molly Hatchet, REO Speedwagon -

I'm guessing you're about 4 years older than me --- 40, maybe?

[SamAdams76]

One year off. Pretty good guess.