“Hello, I’m Tabitha Soren and
for the next few minutes I'm going
to ram my corporate, neo-liberal,
close-minded crap down your
throat.”
At least, that’s what it says to
me.
I can’t believe that this town is
whining about the evils of public
access when we have the specter of
social control haunting channel
number 28; watch the images of
mental paralysis fly through the air.
If I wasn’t such an absurdly
strong advocate of Mr. Amendment
#1,1 would sashay on down to the
mayor’s office and demand my
$1.33 and a mule. I want nothing to
do with MTV. The Nazi’s passed
along their political agenda with a
smile and a parade, why is it now
OK for music television to sell us
their pet causes via breasts, angst,
and flannel?
Isn t it great how our grand
music network claims to “support”
feminism and racial harmony but at
the same time uses women and
blaxploitation as the bait to lure the
kids in — lowering the groups to
the status of performing monkeys.
But hell, more power to ‘em. If
unclad young ladies can sell
Aerosmith albums, they can do
anything. Glorified pimps, nothing
more, nothing less.
How did anyone expect my Gen.
X comrades not to “rock” the vote
for Clinton? Christ, MTV made it
sound like if we got Billy into the
White House, he’d be passing
around a big ‘ol Marley while
broadcasting Cindy Crawford
orgies to the tune of Smells Like
Teen Spirit. “Dammit, Kennedy,
you’re getting bong water all over
Socks.”
I fear MTV’s catastrophic
potential to such a ridiculous
degree that I’m willing to cut a
deal with all of the young men of
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If they had just stayed
with music, maybe it all
would have stayed
beautifully 80s, but
vinstead they had to
expand their evil sphere
of influence into every
aspect of your life.
Guys, I realize that it’s in your
hormonal nature to stay glued to
the hobbling box for a chance to
see down Jenny McCarthy’s shirt,
but if you agree not to subject
yourself to this social control
blitzkreig, you can simply call me,
and I will be glad to buy you a pom
mag in order to more safely, ah,
satiate your adolescent tendencies.
The heroin of our nation’s
youth. I look down and see Martha
Quinn’s head peering out of the
blueness in my veins. It’s not my
fault, I was hooked in the womb.
I’m an MTV baby.
They sit with a big grin on their
faces, making you eat their petty
pop-culture crusades. And while
we’re busy worrying about a
wayward Arapahoe boy who pees
himself when confronted with
magenta, MTV will be busy buying
up the laws of time, space, and
dimension.
Pearl Jam and the viewing
public, all pawns in a smokescreen
war with Ticketmaster to divert'
attention away from the fact that
MTV has the true chokehold j
monopoly on the music industry.
If they had just stayed with
music, maybe it all would have
stayed beautifully 80s, but instead i
they had to expand their evil sphere j
of influence into every aspect of
your life. Politics, fashion, sports.
Tell me about Farrakhan, what
legislation I should support, and
what my view is on abortion. Better
yet, slide it in under the carpet so it
subconsciously sinks into the head
of some drooling mongoloid trying
to form a political consensus
between Weezer videos.
And what the hell is with their
little microcosm of absurdity (read,
“The Real World”)? This is the
story of five paid actors thrown
together in a box like molested veal
to be offered as irrefutable proof as
to the conditions of society, to
reduce issues of sexual orientation
and race down to Dick and Jane
digestibility, just in time for MTV
News to come on and act as the
placebo for all of society’s ills,
telling you what to think and who
to vote for.
They gained the kids’ trust by
embracing our rebellious medium
and then pissed in our faces by co
opting it with bureaucracy, Holly
wood glitz, and enough corn-syrup- -
drenched Top Fortiness to make
Casey Kasem dry heave.
I only wish they would stop
selling us down the river
for....I’m sorry, I can’t
continue. I’ve been immobilized by
fear, wondering who they will pick
as the next generation
spokesmodel.
McKala Is an undeclared sophomore and
a Dally Nebraskan colnmnist
Speak up
Uninformed public continues to speculate
She still hasn’t spoken yet.
You would think we would wanl
the center of a controversy to tell
her side, but she hasn’t. And
therefore we have come to our
conclusions without her.
She is Ruby Scott. Does the
name sound familiar? If it doesn’t,
the situation certainly should: she’s
the young Blair woman taken from
her home last year by both city and
county police and put in a foster
home for 36 hours so she couldn’t
have the immediate abortion she
sought.
Recently, the American Civil
Liberties Union took up her cause.
Louise Melling, the New York
attorney handling the case, says
Scott’s treatment was a clear-cut
violation of her civil rights. She
was first detained in order to
prevent the abortion, but also taken
from the people to whom she most
wanted to speak, her parents.
mat s au we Knew until now.
But new facts came to light
Wednesday. According to the Blair
City Attorney, Scott was right on
the cusp between the second and
third trimesters of her pregnancy.
This raises questions about the
legality of an abortion, since
abortion after the second trimester
is illegal. Even the short time she
was in the foster home made the
difference. The incident exploded
into the Saturday morning papers
after the Associated Press first
brought it to light. The coverage
initially portrayed Scott as the
victim of overzealous law enforce
ment officials.
Now that the fact that she was i
her 27th week of pregnancy has
become part of the public record,
the coverage will most likely swin
in the opposite direction — she wi
lose media sympathy. A lot of
people have made snap judgments
and assumptions based on how the
Krista Sch wart Ing
Without hearing what
the principal players
have to say, this will
continue to be an
endlessly complicated
situation.
feel about abortion. I think the
presence, even peripherally, of a
controversial issue has caused
people to make blind decisions
rather than wait for more of the
truth to be revealed.
I do not see the Ruby Scott
matter as an abortion issue. It is an
issue of whether R. Heath
Mayfield, the purported father of
the child, had a right to be a part of
Scott’s decision: It’s an issue about
families’ inabilities to work out an
agreement and whether that
agreement needed the help of the
juvenile court and police.
We have learned about the case
in bits and pieces as records have
i been released and people on the
borders of the case have spoken.
And based on these fragments,
g Nebraska has come once again into
11 the national limelight.
We have seen a sudden influx of
folks from New York wanting to
y write stories about “Crime in the
Heartland” and “Prejudice in a
Small Town.”
Such coverage does not inform
people. The national media come
expecting to see how small-minded
and conservative Midwesterners
can be. They don’t stay long
enough to find out the truth of
either that assumption or what
they’re trying to report.
Soon we will see Blair on the /
CBS and NBC national newscasts /
and the pages of the New York
Times and “Time Magazine.”
Unless you know more than
most people, you shouldn’t have
made up your mind. But you
probably have anyway.
Mayfield and his parents, along
with Ruby Scott, her parents and
the city and county law enforce
ment agencies, have all the infor
mation about the case. No one else
does. It would sure help if they
would speak up.
Advocates on both sides of the
abortion issue have taken up arms
and are prepared to make her a
crucial example of their side of the
story. It shouldn’t happen.
I’m pro-choice. JAy first instinct
was to immediately assume Scott’s
rights were violated, as Melling
would like us to believe. But the
issue here doesn’t revolve around
abortion. It doesn’t revolve around
anything that deserves to be in the
public eye.
But it is. And if it has to be, I
would like to hear from the people
it affects.
I understand the desire for
privacy. Had not a large number of '
people throughout the country
already heard about the case, I
would defend Seott’s right to
silence. As it stands, she needs to
speak. And we need to hear the
whole story.
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