Final thoughts on the MTV Super Bowl half time show…
Final thoughts on the MTV Super Bowl half time show… know this is getting redundant and tiresome, so after this…”let us never speak of the Super Bowl half time show again.”)
The fact that the programming director at MTV didn’t have a problem with anything in the performance except for the last 5 seconds should tell us a lot about what they view as quality entertainment.
What’s the difference between having a show where the performers ‘go too far’ and having a show where the performers’ intent is to charade the act of ‘going too far?’ The fact that CBS gave MTV control of the half time should tell us a lot about what they will permit as entertainment. How does this compare to the programming that makes up the CBS primetime lineup? Is the image any less offensive if it’s in a live music performance or if it’s a scene in the latest made-for-tv movie? Is the language any less offensive if it’s part of a half time show or part of the latest television series?
Without a change of the attitudes and behaviors that led to this, there will no doubt be more and more of these types of sorry incidents. Fortunately for MTV and CBS, they’ll never go broke appealing to the lowest common denominator. But unfortunately our youth suffer and so does the culture by settling for such unfulfilling ‘entertainment.’
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