I don't want my MTV
The Great Escape
Jack Piatt

MTV is the biggest joke zipping through the satellites and spilling into televisions across the world. I don't want my MTV ... I hate MTV. What once brought entertainment and joy to my eyes and ears as a child now boils my blood and causes me to turn the channel with supreme distaste.

MTV is supposed to be music television. It is supposed to be the channel you watch for music videos and news. Now, if you are lucky, you might catch a clip of a video or maybe even a complete video in its entirety if you are still up watching at 4 a.m.

All this worthless channel consists of these days are reality shows and tons of commercials. MTV tries to sell cool like it comes in a clear bottle but all it's doing is selling is out. It isn't about music or the artists anymore, it is about MTV.

MTV, in its infinite wisdom, has now decided to ban any video that displays violence. So if a video (this must be that rare time of day when it actually airs videos) has anything in the lyrics about war, bombs or the video displays this visually, it will not be shown. You see, folks, MTV is very concerned with our feelings and doesn't want anything we see or hear to cause us undo stress.

That is why the people at MTV decided instead to spend half of the day showing footage of their correspondents in Iraq with bombs bursting in air behind them, but hey, that's different ... it's news. One word for you: Baloney!

I will tell you what, MTV ... you can take your boring channel along with your precious offspring Carson Daly, wrap him up with TRL, documentaries on Limp Bizkit and all your craptacular reality shows and stick them right up what we from the 82nd Airborne Division like to call your fourth point of contact!