Sex, commercials, rock 'n' roll. (role of MTV)

From: The Progressive | Date: July 1, 1993 | Copyright information

Critics of MTV's 1992 liberal bias, such as Christopher Georges of the Washington Monthly magazine, neglect the historic liberal-oppositional history of rock music. MTV is merely a barometer of social-political trends, neither a liberal mouthpiece nor a conservative corporate captive.

Since its inception in 1981, MTV has hardly received a kind or dispassionate word, at least from "respectable," "responsible" adults. The 'round-the-clock, all-music cable network, set up to captur...

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