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Originally posted by oc civic
your wrong.. you along with myself have just grown up... MTV has ALWAYS been the same following differant fads and such molding itself to fit the american youth.. go watch some early 90's mtv... come on man.. did hammer have a message.. lol NO of course not.. lol mtv is a complete joke, and is PURELY entertainment based... you have just grown out fo the entertainment it provides..

Actually, MTV used to be a MUSIC NETWORK. At their inception they started off with 120 videos and no bullshit filler shows. There was no TRL or Sorority Life or Real World. It was actually about playing music and many of the more influential bands of the '80s were brought to a ton of people by MTV since the radio was stuck on top 40 crap. What the hell does MC Hammer have to do with any of this? Did he have a message? No. But he sucked too. Now he's broke and, much like most of MTV's loyal fanbase, should go suck a tailpipe. Of course MTV is entertainment based. Show me one TV network that isn't. Even CNN is entertaining to those who want 24 hour news. But the fact that it's entertainment based shouldn't get in the way of legitimacy. To site CNN again, the don't call themselves Cable News Network and then play 6 hours of "Friends" or "Everyone Loves Raymond". By diluting their programming to little nanosecond sound bites and flashy graphics which have surely lowered our intelligence and shortened the attention span of America at large. My problem with MTV isn't what it does...it's that it still does what it does while claiming to be something else. Even VH1 is more entertaining...at least they have Behind the Music (even if they do play MTV's leftovers). Damn myself for not paying for digital cable so I could get Much Music. *sigh* So, once again, a big FU(K YOU MTV.