"MTV has done all it can to promote the cheap, the vulgar, and the flashy over the good, the true, and the beautiful."

Great piece by Chuck Colson today re the 25th anniversary of MTV:

We certainly can't place all the blame for our coarsened and desensitized culture on MTV. But it deserves a significant share of the blame for a culture in which our children -- at younger and younger ages -- are surrounded on all sides by twisted views of sexuality. ...

Only in a culture shaped by MTV's kind of values, for example, could Madonna's latest stage act -- hanging on a mirrored cross while singing -- draw little more than yawns and "Oh, there she goes again." Madonna and her onstage antics are a perfect expression of the channel and the culture that helped create her. Or take that infamous Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl. As the AP implied, what shocked an audience full of adults was old hat to many of their kids, who had seen far worse in MTV's videos and reality shows.

Read the whole article here.