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Here I go again
I was disturbed that the VMA's were at the Palms casino in Las Vegas. How does MTV get away with such a cheery endorsement of partying at the Palms when the majority of its viewers are under 21? Bob Herbert wrote a great Op-Ed about prostitution in Las Vegas last week in the Times, and it really disturbed me that so many teenage girls are getting swept into prostitution there at such a young age. It already disturbed me that Las Vegas markets itself as a great place to get loaded, gamble, and fuck without anyone at home knowing. But for MTV to sell that place to children is inexcusable.
1 comment:
I couldn't agree more and I don't think you're being a granny on this one. What scares me is how impressionable young people really are and how many will want to act out the scenes they saw at the event. MTV does a ton of research and they know this. They're not stupid, so when they do social campaigns against drinking, and drugs, and AIDS etc. it makes you wonder why they would then take their biggest award show and do what they did.
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