MTV's Message

[KJbushway]

I just saw a commercial for a new season of 16 and pregnant. I know mtv gets great ratings and money for this. But its a huge mistake to keep it going. Teenagers are actually becoming pregnant in hopes of getting on the show. Plus it doesn't show much of a bad message since the babies and most of the teen moms aren't that bad off.
Plus getting 70,000 a season helps alot.

 

[Shazam!]

Current MTV is probably the most horrific thing in existence.

 

[Anduril]

Except for Jersey Shore.

 

[timothy]

jersey shore I've tried it don't care for modern Mtv . Loved it when they actually played music videos . but music come from 60's, 70's 80's and early 90"s . other than that music is dying a horrible death . we need a new renissance era .


best bands in the world IRON MAIDEN , AC / DC

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I thought MTV's message is "just ignore the M".

 

[timothy]

make mine VH1C

 

[LitmusDragon]

If only there were some cartoon characters who could make fun of how stupid popular culture has become.

 

[KJbushway]

Except for Jersey Shore.

Jersey Shore doesn't set a good example either. It shows false parts of America in the worst lights. Example all of those Horish girls they get to come over to the house. This is poison to girls and guys(tweens), becuase it doesn't show a good life.
Thats why I love the south park episode about it.

 

[Gaith]

But could it possibly glamorize teen pregnancy any more than Juno?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I just saw a commercial for a new season of 16 and pregnant. I know mtv gets great ratings and money for this. But its a huge mistake to keep it going. Teenagers are actually becoming pregnant in hopes of getting on the show. Plus it doesn't show much of a bad message since the babies and most of the teen moms aren't that bad off.
Plus getting 70,000 a season helps alot.

Yes, if the show were stopped, teens would stop becoming pregnant.

 

[Trekker4747]

Teenagers are actually becoming pregnant in hopes of getting on the show.

Are they now? Have there really been that many more teen pregnancies in the last year and a half the show has been on? Because, somehow, I doubt that.

 

[KJbushway]

Teen pregnancy is on the rise, but yes. some do. Americans can be that stupid.

 

[KJbushway]

But could it possibly glamorize teen pregnancy any more than Juno?

Juno didn't glamorize teen pregnancy. But thats a fictional movie. Its not reality tv show that girls can have an audition for.

 

[ToddPence]

I consider the day MTV premiered as one of the five darkest days in modern American history, along with Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy Assassination, The Columbine shootings, and 9/11. And I do not intend being fallacious in the slightest by making that comparison.

 

[Gaith]

But could it possibly glamorize teen pregnancy any more than Juno?

Juno didn't glamorize teen pregnancy.

Really? Her relationship with her parents improves, she gets a boyfriend, her baby gets a wonderful mother who gushes over them both, she has a wacky flirtation with the potential father figure, she gets to annoy the high school jock, her friends stand by her, and everything generally turns out light and happy and for the best.

I have a hard time envisioning a movie that'd make teen pregnancy look more pleasant and light.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

make mine VH1C

Even they hardly run music videos any more, just Behind The Music & rock movies ad nauseum.

We need VH1 Classic Classic.

 

[Trekker4747]

Teen pregnancy is on the rise, but yes. some do. Americans can be that stupid.

Teen pregnancies are on the rise but after also being at low levels. Statistics fluctuate like this, drawing a connection between the marginal rise in teen pregnancies and this TV series is trying to find a connection between two unrelated things.

As I said, this show has been on for a little more than a year and a half, even if a girl saw the first episode, decided to get pregnant to get on it she'd have to find a mate willing to do this for the sake of "TV fame", get pregnant and birth the child and even then the child would have been born only a few months ago considering the time it'd take for all of that to happen. ("It only takes one time" is the mantra but at the same time people struggle all of the time to get pregnant on purpose even after multiple tries.)

I think any connection between the two is horseshit outside of the handful of trailer-trash idiots.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I think both MTV and Much Music (in Canada) have a message of and have been this way for several years now, we can't just play music videos any more. Music videos don't get ratings the way reality tv shows and teen dramas do. Much Music here airs "Degrassi" and "The Vampire Diaries" among their myriad shows.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

MTV was decent in the 80's, but thru the 90's and certainly into the last decade became less and less worthwhile. Now, I couldn't even tell you where it is on my DirectTV channel list.

 

[byron lomax]

I remember reading somewhere (can't remember where, exactly) that the people running MTV had been planning for it to become a "youth culture" channel for a long time in advance. The current video-less, reality-TV approach was inevitable.

MTV always had a lot of trashy output, but there was also a more left-field, experimental side that was completely abandoned at the turn of the century. At one point in its history, MTV played legitimate underground music (with a wide variety of other genres), made some cool and original animation, and had unnattractive presenters who were there because they were enthusiastic about music and music video. Almost impossible to imagine it's the same channel now.