MTV today....

[mejustpurely]

MTV used to be all about music. What the hell is going on today? When I switched the channel to MTV the other day, they were showing a woman giving birth.... So, MTV stands for Maternity Television now?

[metarie]

YEAH, that's my business!! I haven't been discussing about tv and society for a while so I release my dogs now:

I don't know how MTV works abroad. In Italy, we have MTV on public television and some special channels called MTV Hits, MTV Classics and such, on the satellite.

The satellite channels (as far as I know, no satellite in my house) are all about music, the public one isn't. It has a LOT of rubbish when it comes to music, so maybe the off-topic is the best part of it.
Actually I think there are cool shows anyways: series like Scrubs or Skins or Blue Mountain State are all on MTV here, and there are some really interesting talk shows which are way better than those on the national channels. News are more accurate too, and there's a very sensitive eye on youth and its problems, short documentaries about society... all in all, I like MTV as it is now, because it's the most serious and intelligent channel on public tv. Even with Jersey Shore, Teenage Mom and such shows, so just try to imagine how other public channels are over here