MTV on the ropes in aftermath of child porn series debut

The Parents Television Council has some suits in New York scrambling after asking the US Senate and House Judiciary Committees and the US Department of Justice to investigate MTV for promoting underage sex and child pornography. PTC was so persuasive in its argument that Taco Bell, a main sponsor of the MTV show "Skins," pulled its ads. Skins is, according to MTV, about nine teen friends and how they handle sex, drugs and high school life.  Taco Bell's Rob Poetsch tells The Hollywood Reporter, "Upon further review, we've decided that the show is not a fit for our brand and have moved our advertising to other MTV programming." The Skins website quotes a teen saying PTC and others just "don't get it."

PTC and anyone with any sense of character does get it. Even Megan 1, who writes on the Skins website gets it without knowing she is getting it. She says [spelling errors included], "People are blowing Skins way out of perportion. Yeah, it shows TEENS doing drugs and all that jazz, but do parents not think it goes on? Are they that dumb? Maybe MTV is exagerating it a little more than it actually happens in real life, but it still happens. If they don't like it don't watch it. And if they keep their kids from watching it, they are most likely going to sneak and watch it or they are just dumb not to let their kid watch it...I mean it is just a show." And kids are watching this program in record numbers.

MTV reported that the program debuted with a record 3.26 million total viewers. PTC wrote Congress and the Justice Department: "On January 17, the Viacom-owned cable network MTV aired a teenager-based drama, 'Skins.' The episode included all manner of foul language, illegal drug use, illegal activity as well as thoroughly pervasive sexual content. Moreover, future episodes promise much more of the same... The New York Times has reported this morning that Viacom executives met yesterday to discuss whether the show might violate federal law regarding the sexual depiction and presentation of minors and has compelled the producers of the show to make certain changes."

PTC says that many of the actors appearing in the show are below the age of 18, making it clear that Viacom has "knowingly produced material that may well be in violation" of several federal statutes against visual representations of sexual abuse of children, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. Here is a case where good parenting comes in. Proverbs 22:6 says, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." This is the problem. For over a generation in America, children have been brainwashed by leftists in the public schools and the media to hate everything moral and right. Parents, grandparents, need to be more assertive than MTV.

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