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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
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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
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