mtv (again)

Yeah, I thought that might get your attention.

Remember my prediction that MTV might mind its manners for around three months? Apparently I was off by, oh, about two and a half.

Just a few weeks after promising to clean up its act during daytime hours because of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl bra-ha-ha, MTV is baring all again.

Britney Spears' graphic sex romp “Toxic” is back in heavy rotation around the clock.

So are controversial videos from Blink 182 (although edited a bit) and Maroon 5. […]

An MTV spokeswoman explained the network's backflip this way:

“We decided to take a temperature check, we listened to the audience, we wanted to make sure we still felt good about the images on MTV.”

Now that some of the initial shock of the Jackson nip slip is over, she said: “The audience … decided they wanted to see these artists.”

“Toxic” has been on again at all hours for about 10 days, showing voluptuous Britney writhing on the floor, wearing a mesh outfit, and carrying on with all sorts of guys.

(via InstaPundit.)

True confession: Like about 98% of American males over the age of 13, I find Ms. Spears fascinating. (The other 2% are gay.) But I fear that she and her fellow pop tarts have had a pernicious effect—not so much on high schoolers, who are pretty much already beyond help—but in promoting the sexualization of junior high and even late elementary school girls.

In other words, children.

Thank you, MTV.

Not.

UPDATE. Good freaking grief: Chris Regan at JYB reports how CBS is marketing a real-life sexual assault as entertainment.

No joke: Go read it.