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...actors encased in fashionably generic black and red. The impeccably timed dancing, emotionless and overtly sexual; the music, driving and anonymous. A heavily stylized plot takes shape--man fondles woman, who pulls away; another woman claws said man toward her--dominated by the same aggressively heterosexual assumptions that pervade MTV. The talons of this brand of "savage love" are thickly lacquered and varnished. And it's the ritualization of this savagery that makes it seem all the more deadly...
Because Americans can't rely upon their press, they turn to C-SPAN, talk radio and MTV specials every four years. And even Larry King. If the mainstream media continue to relay information in ways that are less than useful to candidates and voters, then America should totally ignore the networks' game-centered approach to politics. Hopefully, as the mainstream media suffer bad ratings and lower circulation, the media will get the message that politics is more than a game...
...prohibited from airing before 10 p.m. Similar rules apply throughout Europe. Definitions of unsuitable fare are so vague, however, that networks often run what turns out to be objectionable programming and pay the penalties later. The Independent Television Commission, one of various monitoring groups in Britain, recently fined MTV Europe $90,000, in part for running explicit sex-themed talk shows in the morning and early evening. In France a government-operated FCC equivalent known as the CSA fined two French networks a total of $2 million in 1989 for airing violent movies during prime-time hours...
...have to speak to them where they live," he said of voters, pointing to a decrease in the use of traditional media and a shift towards new forms of public address, such as MTV...
Nevertheless, to encourage student registration, organizations like MTV's Rock the Vote have plastered the Dartmouth campus with posters reminding students of the necessary procedures...