Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!dartvax!merchant From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: MTV Censorship Message-ID: <2639@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 09:16:38 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.2639 Posted: Fri Dec 14 09:16:38 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 06:11:47 EST Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 29 { Take 2 } Wait a second! You're planning on doing nasty things to MTV because they aren't showing your favourite video? Oh come on now! Okay, let's say that MTV is specifically saying that "No, we won't show this video because it has gays in it." So? It's THEIR network. Their music director (or video director) had to make a decision. Why did she make this decision? Well, let's see... Last I saw, MTV's audience was made up primarily of middle-to-upper class teenagers. This is why you see so much Duran Duran and Billy Idol and the like. Possibly, MTV feels that the subject matter of the song is one that their audience might not like. Now, I admit, the fact that they might not like homosexuality but have no qualms about women in chains might be considered by many a sad state of affairs, it none-the-less exists. MTV, therefore, doesn't show them because they do not wish to alienate their audience. By the way, the idea of contacting the ACLU about this is rather silly. Watching Videos of Your Choice is not one of the rights granted to everyone by the bill of rights. 'nuff said about this. Does anyone know whether MTV is showing the video for "I Believe in Father Christmas"? -- "Santa Claus is Computer Literate!" Peter Merchant