As if MTV couldn't get any worse in their stupification/vapidization of the youth

[Bombtrack]

completely not caring about music or people growing up into worse people, I don't think they devoted a single minute of coverage to this election. I'm forced to catch the channel every so often via interaction with people less disgusted by the programming than I am so I think odds are I would have caught something if they did cover it once due to the fact they repeat everything they do atleast 15 times.

Excuse the run-on sentance, I was brought up on this dreck.

[meegbear]

1. Well with Britney announcing she's divorcing KFed ...

what could be more important?

[symbolman]

15. Wait a minute

SOME things ARE important IS Britney DIVORCING FederSLIME?

WOW, the world just gets better and better if true :)

[Beelzebud]

2. What's sad is that at one point, they did a lot to get young people interested.

Now they are corporate owned to the core.

[Bombtrack]

8. They've always been corporate owned and non-serious, however it HAS kept getting worse

10-15 years ago, they actually had creativity existing on a noticable fraction of their airtime. They helped popularize a decent amount of quality music (the big grunge acts, the 90's brit-pop, radiohead etc) and they actually had undeniably talented inovative people contributing to the entertainment (Jon Stewart, Mike Judge, Ted Demme, etc).

Nobody can F-ing tell me a wiff of a shadow of a crumb of that kind of stuff exists on its ultra-evil reality shows and limetless indistinguishable crap-rap&R+B.

Their current quota of "rock" is Myspace douchery like "Panic at the Disco".

[McKenzie]

3. part of the control/distraction toolkit my friend

keep them dumbed down and intellectually comatose...so they won't get interested in how their country is being run.

It's not just about the money.

[muntrv]

4. Not like 1992 and "Rock The Vote." I remember that campaign turned

out a lot of young people to the polls, thus putting the Clinton/Gore ticket over the top.

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Didn't they though?

I really miss Tabitha Soren. She actually gave the network some substance reporting on the campaign. Her and Kurt Loder.

[shadowknows69]

16. What a waste of such a powerful medium.

n/t

[Dr Fate]

5. The Kids I meet today are mostly fantastic.

I like these kids today- and very few watch MTV (at least White males)

[Bombtrack]

9. well those white males have to live with the girls who MTV decided to focus on

and it makes for a worse life for everyone.

[Dr Fate]

12. I think you are right that MTV focuses on a female audience.

I dont see too much that teen-age boys could be that interested in- or at least when I was a young boy.

Just look at who they focus on- Danity Kaye, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake...

No rock & roll music for the boys- only eye-candy pin-ups.

[WilliamPitt]

6. Midterm talk doesn't sell soda or video games

and that's what MTV exists for.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

7. Half of the people in this country didn't read a book last year

What half?

[proudlibal]

10. I agree

You know I have been thinking about this for some time. I am from the "Rock The Vote" generation. Back in 92, MTV did a great job at energizing the young voters. And like you said, now they just contribute to the "stupification" of todays youth. It really is disgusting.

[devilgrrl]

11. I haven't watched MTV in YEARS!!!!! In fact I didn't know it was still on the air.

Do they ever show music videos anymore?

[WinkyDink]

13. Before, they had "Rock the Vote". Wonder what happened.

Don't forget Kanye, re: Katrina.

[Bombtrack]

17. I don't forget Kanye, that' he's an egomaniacal privaledged asshole

who depends on lame privaledged, intellectually dishonest critics piggybacking on their own bullshit for his entire career.

He sucks, he's an asshole and no truely missing-the-point inarticulate "bashing" of Bush one time is gonna change that.

[otherlander]

18. MTV, killer of rock, how I hate you...

But still, I think this generation will turn out alright, especially with being exposed to so much information through the internet. Two of the people I eat lunch with got into a really interesting debate today over inheritance taxes, and it was way more in-depth than the debates that had been going on between the candidates for our district's seat in the House. I thought to myself, "Interesting, our politicians debate at below a high school level..."