MTV

MTV MTV is truly one of the most important pop culture phenomena of the late 20th century. It defined an international youth culture centered on the rebellious spirit of rock n roll. To many millions of youthful viewers scattered across the globe, MTV is the paramount medium of global youth culture, offering an enchanting mix of music, postmodern imagery, consumer good, and original programming. To its many critics, mainly parents, MTV is a corruptor of youth, a source of mindless consumerism, and a degrader of all that is authentic about music. One critic suggested that MTV renders youth deaf to all higher culture and blind to hope or beauty. Through the early 1980’s youths in America were fed a steady diet of videos and ads, and videos and ads. MTV was said to desensitize the youth and encourage them to identify more with the images on the screen rather than the more significant communities of meaning like family, political parties or social class. MTV’s rapid emergence as a cultural force soon drew many critics. MTV’s videos were termed as racy montages of mtv, youth, parents, culture, videos, teenagers, screen, part, one, music, among, women, since, rather, programming, original, mtv’s, images, identify, great, critics, butthead, between, become, beavis, ads, about, youths, youthful, youngsters, violence, viewers, very, two, truly, today’s