The always insightful Brent Bozell writes about a different kind of whip than in my previous post—I think. As I said earlier, it’s so confusing, what with all the whipping.
[…] How raunchy is MTV? Analysts at the Parents Television Council selected one week in March, when MTV goes wild with spring break festivities, including shows titled “Spring Break Survival Guide, “Spring Break Fantasies” and “How to Be a Spring Break Playa.” In 171 hours of MTV programming, PTC analysts found 1,548 sexual scenes containing 3,056 depictions of sexual dancing, gesturing or various forms of nudity, and another 2,881 verbal sexual references. That averages out to about 18 physical and 17 verbal references to sex per hour. Imagine your pre-teen watching a “human sundae” competition, where men lick whipped cream placed on women’s bodies—with a cherry for each breast.
Analysts also recorded 1,518 uses of unedited foul language and an additional 3,127 bleeped profanities on MTV programming. That means the young children watching MTV are subjected to about nine un-bleeped and 18 bleeped cuss words per hour. So your kids are not only able to see the “human sundae” competition; they also hear it described as “She’s eating whipped cream off some dude’s (bleeped-out “f—-ing’) chest right now.”
Predictably, MTV defends itself by saying it’s only a mirror that reflects the culture. Baloney. MTV is manufacturing the culture, not reflecting it. […]
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