I guess when your ratings are tanking due to Hollywood’s long-standing, creative stagnancy, the best thing to do is suck up to your customers.
In trying to keep its hold on young and fickle audiences, MTV over the decades has undergone some fundamental programming shifts, but never before on this scale.
While MTV pioneered reality series with 1992′s “The Real World,” that genre has become ubiquitous, so the network is offering a slate that avoids the backbiting and bitchery of most nonfiction fare.
“Our new shows will feature themes of affirmation and accomplishment,” says Brian Graden, prez of entertainment at MTV Networks music channels and president of Logo. “Our shows are going to focus less on loud and silly hooks and more on young people proving themselves. These are themes that are consistent with the Obama generation.”
Young people proving themselves….
All they proved is they, for the most part, are too gullible and susceptible to political bullshit to be considered informed voters. They also proved that their “backbiting and bitchery” is too much for even them to sit through.
Not an easy demographic to please.
Now wait a minute…exactly what age IS the “Obama Generation”? I was born in 1969, which was 8 years after he was so I thought he and I would be the same generation.
And if so, I think I’d prefer being referred to as a “Gen X-er” at this point.
King Tut definitely wins. I can almost hear the tag-line on the commercials: “Moron TV: brought to you by the Obama administration”.
I think King Tut wins. After all, this is where shows like Jackass came from.
The m stands for moron.
Any idea what the M stands for nowadays?
merde
IT Nerd, it stands for Mediocre, or maybe Mendacious, Malignant, and especially Moribund.
The person who came up with that lame assed Obama Generation line needs a good bitch slap to the side of the head.
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Considering that apparently my generation thinks accomplishing something on your own is the next closest thing to facism, fuck MTV.
MTV? Isn’t that the channel that used to play music videos? Any idea what the M stands for nowadays?
“Hey, here’s an idea. I know I’m going out on a limb here, taking a wild flyer, but hear me out. How about programs about music? We could even play music videos. What do you think?”
- the first guy thrown out of the meeting.