That's all true, although there's also the risk that, for young people, any
act of altruism is linked to publicity - it's the "Extreme Home
Makeover"-ing of America. If the only motivation for doing good is to get
your 15 minutes of fame, that's a bad cultural shift. But I think we
started trending that way long before MTV.
Maybe I've become to jaded by media. :)
Cheers,
Charlie Meisch
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<br><br><br>----Original Message Follows----<br>From: "Bob
Hirshon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>Reply-To: The Digital Divide
Network discussion group<[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>To:
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>Subject: Re: RE: [DDN] MTV pro social youth
initiative grant<br>Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 09:18:40
-0400<br><br>Hi:<br><br>Regardless of one's feelings toward MTV programming,
I think a<br>high-profile project that rewards positive community work on a
weekly<br>basis is a great thing-- especially if it's disseminated to the
enormous<br>MTV audience.<br><br>Networks like MTV are amoral. They pull in
audiences. They'll air great<br>programming; they'll air crappy programming.
They air what they're<br>guessing their target audience wants. And every
project/program is an<br>experiment to see what works. If Youth Venture is
wildly successful,<br>there will be more of it-- not just on MTV, but on
other networks.<br><br>Bob Hirshon<br>Kinetic City<br>American Association
for the Advancement of Science<br>[EMAIL PROTECTED]<br><br><br> >>>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 6/2/05 8:41 AM >>><br>Well said, James<br>I
couldn't agree more.<br>I'm a musician and find MTV's callous display of
what it thinks<br>today's<br>young peoples 'values' are disgusting.<br>As
legitimate grant fiscal streams like the Federal TOP program
are<br>diminished<br>or aborted I guess we can expect bottom feeders like
this to emerge.<br>Bob Johnson<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From:
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Behalf Of<br>[EMAIL PROTECTED]<br>Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 10:20
AM<br>To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group<br>Subject: Re: [DDN]
MTV pro social youth initiative grant<br><br><br>This initiative disgusts
me. It's like the cigarette companies giving<br>money to arts
programs.<br><br>If there is any media entity doing more to undermine the
values and<br>culture of young people than MTV, we should run a contest to
identify<br>it. The racism, misogyny, and materialism of MTV's
continuous<br>pornographic assault on the youth of the world is as much of
an<br>embarrassment to the United States as the war in Iraq.<br><br>This
grant program should not be applauded; it should be boycotted.<br>Youth
Venture should be condemned and excoriated for its
shameless<br>opportunism.<br><br>I am no prude and am politically
progressive. I listen to some of the<br>performers who appear on MTV and
purchase their music. I watch the<br>network from time to time, primarily to
stay informed about what it's<br>doing.<br>I am active in the arts and work
closely with young people in<br>educational settings and
programs.<br><br>MTV degrades youth. Its money is blood money. I know there
are many who<br>will disagree, but this is my opinion.<br><br>James
Lerman<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Champ-Blackwell,
Siobhan"<br><[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>Sent: Jun
1, 2005 7:29 AM<br>To: The Digital Divide Network discussion
group<br><[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>Subject: [DDN] MTV pro
social youth initiative grant<br><br>MTV AND YOUTH VENTURE ANNOUNCE NEW
GRANT PROGRAM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE<br><br>Deadline: Rolling, through December
31, 2005<br><br>MTV: Music Television (http://www.mtv.com/) has announced
the launch of<br>its new pro-social initiative, think MTV, which is designed
to inform<br>and empower young people to take action on social
issues.<br><br>As part of its effort to encourage its audience to become
more<br>proactive in their communities, MTV has teamed up with Youth
Venture<br>(http://www.youthventure.org/), a movement of youth
social<br>entrepreneurs, to offer think Venture Grants to young people who
are<br>making a difference by creating and leading organizations, clubs,
or<br>businesses that address a need in their communities. Grants of up
to<br>$1,000 each will be offered each week to a group of young people
with<br>the most compelling and sustainable community service project
concept in<br>one of the five primary think MTV issue areas:
discrimination,<br>education, the environment, global issues, and sexual
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