For Rating and as a consequence Dollars. people are prepared to go to any lengths!
A tipster sent this to me this morning and after clicking the link, I — the guy who thought he had seen it all from our pop cultureoverlords — literally gasped:
MTV Campaign (Photo credit: garretkeogh)
DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THINGS TO THE NEXT LEVEL? LIKE, ARE YOU READY TO HAND OVER YOUR V CARD? OR DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND WHO IS READY TO LOSE IT?
Young adulthood is a time for exploration. New relationships, fresh experiences and sexual firsts…
Now MTV is looking to frankly capture that journey in a new series called My First…We’re looking for adults who are ready to go all the way. Let MTV come along on your journey… as you try to lose your virginity! (Note: We will be filming whether or not you accomplish this goal… but NOT the act itself. Duh.)
If you are 18 years or older and are willing to candidly allow MTV to accompany you on the journey toward “losing it,” please send us an email.
MTV can and undoubtedly will hide behind the fact that 18 year-olds are legal adults, but you can prey on adults just as easily as you can prey on children, especially young adults conditioned by pop culture outlets like MTV to believe celebrity and narcissism are virtues.
And the bait here is celebrity. Debase yourselves for our cameras and we’ll make you a star! This isn’t about love or finding love or even losing your innocence to someone you love. This is about the lie that…
Young adulthood is a time for exploration. New relationships, fresh experiences and sexual firsts…
I seem to remember when we were the kind of culture that protected young people from the indignities of loveless sex and did everything in our power to educate about the financial, emotional, and medical pitfalls of leading with your sexuality over your heart.
What MTV is doing might be legal but it’s still a sleazy exploitation of some of our most vulnerable citizens. And the dangling of celebrity and a camera from a swanky studio lot is no different than dangling candy and a camera from your open raincoat.
If you want to debase yourselves, it’s a free country. To entice others, however, is an act of evil.
The “Today” Show brightened our morning with this ridiculous clip of Prince Harry dancing goofily in a Croatian nightclub… and falling in a pool whilst doing so.
The video below shows the grainy footage and, naturally, passes all sorts of judgement.
The prince was participating in a polo match to raise money for Sentebale, his charity supporting orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho, when he fell. He was unhurt and got back on his horse to play on.
‘While other politicians decline to comment, the French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, says he is “dumbfounded” by Polanski’s “absolutely dreadful” detention, declaring forcibly that it made “no sense” for the director to be “thrown to the lions for an ancient story, imprisoned while travelling to an event that was intending to honour him: caught, in short, in a trap”.
May be he is a good director.That does not absolve him of his criminal deed.”thrown to the lions for an ancient story,”-Minister,raping time ago is story,so is murder;why did you not release Jean Thiry of OAS, for attempting to assassinate De Gaulle;why did you have him shot?Raping is much more a serious crime,that too a minor.Where is your sense of proportion?
This compassion was not in evidence when your Police attacked Illegal immigrants recently.Where was your Liberty,Equality and Fraternity then?Is it reserved for degenerate fat cats? http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/sep/28/roman-polanski-french-government
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