Ethics

I'm Getting Old

By Ed Brayton

So I was on the phone with a friend Sunday night and while we were talking, the Mtv Video Music Awards were on the TV, but on mute. And I had several epiphanies as the images flashed before me.

First of all, where the hell do they even find these videos to give awards to? Where does anyone actually watch videos? Mtv and VH1 certainly aren't showing them, those channels are all "reality" TV all the time now. So where do these videos actually come from and where has anyone ever actually seen them?

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).