Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-cad.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-cad!mjc From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: MTV Censorship Message-ID: <211@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:41:19 EST Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-c.211 Posted: Fri Dec 21 00:41:19 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:30:18 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 21 Any privately-owned company has the obligation to cater to the wishes of the majority of their customers, and NO ONE ELSE (government agencies aside). The management of MTV probably guessed (I'd say correctly) that the majority of their audience is not gay. Companies tend to be conservative because they don't want to lose customers; while I haven't seen the video in question, I get the impression from the net that they would run the risk of losing more customers than they would gain by showing it. If you want them to change this opinion, write to them. And if you are offended by something they currently show, let them know. But don't expect them to cater to the whims of every minority out there if doing so would hurt their business. (And because videos cost money to buy/rent/whatever, "hurt" probably means "fail to gain customers" as well as "lose customers".) They don't owe anyone anything. Look at things from the monetary point of view; it's the way capitalist society works. [I do not necessarily agree with this view; I'm just pointing it out.] -Dragon -- UUCP: ...seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg