Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:ag5 From: ag5@pucc-k (Henry C. Mensch) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: MTV Censorship Message-ID: <715@pucc-k> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 14:02:08 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.715 Posted: Mon Dec 17 14:02:08 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 07:16:48 EST References: <2639@dartvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Tower Acres Pleasure Center Lines: 33 >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... It seems to me that MTV ought to realize that gay people are also part of their audience and that, although it might offend some people, they *do* have an obligation to serve that portion of their audience. They show all kinds of sexist videos (where man is supreme, and woman is not much of anything; where you find women in chains and all kinds of other goodies); I am sure that this offends others in their audience. If the feminists were to get upset about this, those videos would surely go by the wayside quickly. The point: LET THE AUDIENCE DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE/HEAR! If there are those in the audience who, after seeing the Bronski Beat and listening to their stuff, don't want them on MTV because they advocate alternative lifestyles, then they can express their opinion to the MTV management, which can then decide (based on these viewer opinions whether or not this video is appropriate for their audience. BTW, this sort of censorship is the problem with network (ABC|CBS|NBC) TV . . . they assume that their audience cannot think for themselves. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry C. Mensch | User Confuser | Purdue University User Services {ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax|seismo|allegra|cbosgd|harpo}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ah, the sweet song of the morning grouch!"