Posted on 06/25/2008 12:56:52 PM PDT by cdchik123
WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- Politicians can finally get their MTV. After declining political advertising since its inception in 1981, MTV is reversing course.
The Viacom MTV Networks channel -- once known for round-the-clock music videos and now home to a host of reality shows -- says it will now take political ads, though only from political candidates and party political committees, not from third parties.
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Viacom has been hammered lately on the street, not surprising they will take revenue from anywhere they can get it.
In a related story, MTV has also decided to not consider Republican candidates or the RNC a major party. /sarc
Did I see a comercial on TV just a bit ago showing Luke Russert participating in a Rock The Vote program?
I’m really, really, really (really !) hoping that P. Diddy and the BET caucus come to my house with the “Vote or DIE!!!” campaign.
Really.
In a related story MTV will actually start playing music people want to hear.
Boxers or briefs
That ship sunk about 15 years ago, didn't it?
Music on MTV? Never heard of such a thing. I thought MTV was a teen reality(sic) show channel. Now Fuse, that’s for music.
MTV is irrelevant these days. Viewers can get reality programming anywhere.
I remember that.
If that were my daughter, I would have smacked the stupid right out of her head the moment she got home.
One chance to ask a presidential candidate a serious question and that’s all she could come up with?
Of course, Slick Willie was going “commando” that day.
He was just being prepared.
Most of those imbeciles watching MTV aren’t old enough to vote anyway.
In a related story, BET will not be accepting any political advertisements because they might interfere with their 24/7 Obama worship schedule.
Rock The Vote was a 501c3 and unable to engage in political advocacy but in 2000 or 2004, they did take a banner ad for some California ballot proposition (the ad explicitly said Vote NO or it could have been YES on a specific item).
Defund the 501c3 tax cheats. Audit.
FYI It’s now the “Obama or Die” campaign. Really.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036310/posts
VH1 stills seems OK. Although they have more “Celeb-reality” than I care for they still do have some music videos, if you watch at the right time.
In 2004 Viacommie-SeeBS-MTV was interrupting MTV entertainment programs (like Pimp My Big House or whatever the bling car and home shows are called) with “news” announcements of the “pending” Bush draft.
There never was ANY mention that the only pending draft legislation was sponsored entirely by Democrats in the House and Senate. Nope, it was a scare campaign and a LIE to say “vote Kerry or else you’ll be drafted to serve in Bush’s war”.
Viacom needs to be billed by the FEC over such “in kind contributions to the Democrats”.
Wonder which ads they’ll take?
You’ve been played.
the girl who ASKED the Boxers or Briefs question had a mother who was a journalist. It was how she GOT the invite to be a hand picked member of the Clinton audience.
They talked over a number of topics (the girl and her mom). They settled on a question about legalizing recreational drugs.
The Clinton team nixed it and said ask something more trivial. Thus Boxers or Briefs.
It was a manufactured moment. Every bit of it.
YOU WERE PLAYED.
Hell, they only actually played music videos for about 9 or 10 years. lol
Back in a ‘96 interview, Chris Cornell (Soundgarden and Audioslave) said that MTV made it clear to him, when they asked him to do a spot, that they only rock the vote for Dems. He didn’t like that.
(I have been a huge fan of his music for several years)
I remember when they started it in 1992. It seemed to exist to help Bill Clinton get elected. I was only in 10th grade and not old enough to vote at the time, but the teachers still brought a TV into the classroom and made us watch it anyway.
Lets guess...ads that feature Obama. They have entirely changed position specifically for Obama imo because he gets a big chunk of his support from the under 30 people.
Laetitia Thompson, daughter of Dateline’s Lea Thompson. She graduated Princeton to pursue a career in J J Just take a wild guess!
She was 17 when she popped the question.
The draft was proposed by Chalie Rangel.
If I gave a shit about Clinton, I would have, indeed, been played.
Now, we conservatives were really played during the Republican debates when CNN stacked the deck with Clinton and Obama operatives.
It came out right alongside “Motor Voter”.
Another abortion from the Democrats.
Exactly , Viacom execs ,Redstone and his son are huge libs.
Ok that’s it we’re all doomed. The clearisil commndos will elect barack mcgovern just as they elected former presidents frenchie and algore. Ooops!
Well played on the "sic". It's obvious to anyone who has ever taken a single acting class that "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills" are scripted programs with unorthodox camera angles. They don't even bother to hire good improvisational actors.
I actually enjoyed this season's offering of "The Real World". Now, I hadn't watched it since the days of Puck and Pedro, but some of the kids at my friend's restaurant were telling me about what a train-wreck the people on that show were this year. Sure enough, these people were sub-human. It was so bad that I was actually rooting for this one meathead who went to rehab during the season to relapse.
That entire channel makes me support mandatory sterilization.
MTV has convinced me that we won’t have to wait 500 years for “Idiocracy.” It’s right here today.
MTV is one giant placement advertisement. Seriously. Every show, every set, every stitch of clothing is a placement for sales of the same. The furniture, clothing, jewelry, everything.
“After declining political advertising since its inception in 1981, MTV is reversing course.”
MTV has been in the bag for the Democratic Party since the 1992 elections. Anyone else remember the “interview” that MTV “journalist” Tabitha Soren had with H.W. Bush?
Lavrentiy Beria couldn’t have staged a better show trial.
The reason, IMO, why they did this is Obama asked to run ads. They wanted to, but to do so, needed to change the policy. Hence, for this young changeling, they change corporate policy.
About 75% of people I know hate that movie. The other 25%, myself included, think it’s brilliant and sadly prophetic. I don’t know a single person who is in any way neutral about it.
To loosely borrow from an ad featured in the movie, “If You Don’t Watch Idiocracy....F You!”
No offense to you personally, as judging by your tagline, you’re probably a Dallas fan, but in an “Idiocracy” future, I can so see the Cowboys being the only football team left, judging by how many mindless non-Texas fans jumped on their bandwagon in the early 90’s.
Between 1 and 4 am, if you can stay awake that long.
Lovely voting block that:
Stoned eighteen year olds.
“Back in a ‘96 interview, Chris Cornell (Soundgarden and Audioslave) said that MTV made it clear to him, when they asked him to do a spot, that they only rock the vote for Dems. He didn’t like that.”
I hope your not suggesting that Cornell isn’t a die-hard liberal.
Don’t forget his guitarist in Audioslave, Tom Morello, is an admitted and proud communist.
Morello was also in Rage Against The Machine who had far-left political views and admired Che Guevera.
Good...let’s hope Obama wastes tens of millions on young morons who already agree with him and probably won’t vote anyway.
Hardly and not for long. Fuse has been taken over by Eric Sherman...the man who destroyed MTV 2 and VH1 Classic. Taking the networks which showed an average of 20 hours of music videos on average and bringing not only reality programming but movies that have nothing to do with anything to the network.
Which explains why so many music shows and videos vanished from Fuse and why they show crap like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and License To Drive in movie marathons.
Music videos make no money for them so they lure the consumer in by promising big time videos and all music all the time...get in on a digital package and bam...they are locked in and can do whatever they damn well please.
I'm aware of the other 3 members of AudioSlave and their commie leanings. I think they have reunited Rage after Chris Cornell left.
But I was very happy that Cornell voiced it and called it what it was even if it because he didn't like being told by MTV what he could or couldn't promote.
I remember it well. She was talking to him the morning before the election on H.W.’s train he was traveling in. The problem though was Bush’s issue. He refused to do a forum with Choose of Loose saying he didn’t need it and only agreed to do the interview with MTV when he realized just how badly he needed the numbers. Unfortunately for him he was about 2 months late in giving the interview on a train, sipping coffee on a cold morning on a moving train.
Weird moment.
You can’t blame Eric Sherman too much here. He’s going to go with whatever makes him the most money.
Blame it on the countless morons in this country that would rather watch silly reality-based crap than good music.
Face it, this country is full of morons and it’s growing (the majority of them will vote for Obama this November).
Actually, I'm a Detroit Lions fan. So I deal with enough 'Idiocracy' with Matt Millen and Company.
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