THE FALL OF M2


	Yes, I realise that I usually rant about problems that plague all of society (well, 
other than the occasional crack-addled Christian website); censorship, laws, gun control, 
all that grim shit. But since this is the Christmas season and all, I thought I'd vent my 
spleen upon something that's been bugging me for a long time;
	The cesspool of trendy shit that is MTV.
	Now, I've long since given up on the main channel.  MTV itself has become nothing 
but reruns of the Real World XXXIIX in Asshole, Indiana, and Carson Daly.  Once or twice a 
day they may flash us part of a video, and if we're really, REALLY lucky, a whole one start-
to-finish.  Of course, it will usually suck ass, to no one's surprise.  What little they do 
play is usually rap, and if you don't like rap or Limp Bizkit, then move to Canada and watch 
MuchMusic.  The VJs are annoying asses, and I don't care how much pussy Carson Daly gets, he's 
STILL a flat one-dimensional twit.  Gone are personalities like Kennedy and Idalis ... hell, 
there IS no personality anymore.  It's nothing but an amorphous mass that scrapes itself into 
whatever shape it thinks the mindless masses will find pleasing, then turns back into sludge 
again the moment that trend stops.
	But for awhile, there was another option.  If you didn't like rap or the mindless 
babblings of the crackhead VJs, there was another place you could go.  One that was devoted to 
the reason MTV was founded in the first place; MUSIC.
	MUSIC Television=MTV.  What a concept, eh?
	MTV dubbed this new network M2, and it was, literally, nothing but music.  24/7.  The
VJs had personalities, and were much more likable than the vacantly-grinning jackoffs on the 
other channel.  There were no commercials; endless strings of videos were interrupted only by
interesting little ditties that let you know what network you were watching, occasional VJ 
comments (NOT some idiot interrupting every video halfway through to bask in the mindless 
screaming of his airheaded fans), and information about what was going on in the musical scene.
What's even more important, M2 represented music.  ALL OF IT.  In one hour, you might hear
Run DMC, Green Day, Tupac Shakur, Rocket From the Crypt, Bruce Springsteen, Iron Maiden,
and Beck.  They didn't devote entire hours to concentrating on videos with black people in them.
When they let a guest star take over the programming, they made sure it was balanced and not
just a half-dozen Notorious B.I.G. songs in a row.  And not only that, it was the PEOPLE who
decided what was played.  Not that TRL shit where they're given a list of 6 songs and they only
get to decide what goes where (and half the time I think they blatantly ignore what they want 
anyways) ... if the fans said Twisted Sister, we got "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna 
Rock".  If the fans wanted a big black guy in a white wig wailing "Youuuu ... you got what I 
neeeeeed ..." on a piano, then dammit, that's what they got.  
	MTV gave the people what MTV wanted; M2 gave the people what the people wanted.
	Then, as always happens, the corporation screwed it up.  
	The first sign was M2 being changed to MTV2.  M2 was catchy ... MTV2 was lame.  
It suggested that M2 was nothing more than an inferior copy of MTV that they could slough 
the extra shit onto.  And slough it they did.  First, they created "MTV2 Jams".  Where once 
videos were played with wonderous disorder, now structure was imposed.  I never DID 
understand why it was necessary to devote hours at a time to one specific genre when it's played 
just as much as all the others already.  Furthermore, the indy videos for bands like Rocket 
From the Crypt and classics from the 80's started to be pulled off the air, replaced by a bunch 
of early 90's shit that sucked the first time around.  Now it's gotten even worse.  It used to be 
nothing but music videos from 6 in the morning to 6 in the morning.  Now it's been chopped up
with all these shitty little programs shoved in between them.  How long is it before we start
seeing the Dark Chylde Daly on the once-pure M2?  
	Or even worse ... MTV decides to turn M2 into a 24-hour Real World/Road Rules 
broadcasting channel?
	Be afraid.  Be very afraid.
	Fuck you, MTV.
	Stay Hungry.

----The Anarkist