>Maybe if thy had a 3d
>crackhead eh?

Please don't give them any ideas.

>The complaint was in reference to
>materialism. My point is materialism
>only bothers people when it
>is people they dont like
>showing things that the viewer
>doesnt have (or doesnt think
>the emcee in question shoould
>have). Are all those car
>commercials not an invitation to
>materialism? yeah so why arent
>we dissing the ROOTs for
>promoting VW...ummm.. ummm... or Sprite...ummmmm.

This is an interesting point. Yes commercials by their nature promote materialism/commercialism. I also agree that folks pick and choose which messages are palatable and who they will recieve that message from. One thing I wonder if you see is the PERVASIVENESS of these ideas (commercialism/materialism) on BET and in the pop culture society in which we live. Did BET invent it? No. Do they foster it? Hell yeah. Is that bad/too much? Depends on ones perspective I guess. the point remains in all this that if BET is merely about promoting pop culture and the status quo of what is "popular" at the time, they should be careful not to promote themselves in such a way that people will say "you're not holding up to what you say you are". Folks will still fuss (as is their want to do), but the old arguement that BET is just for "enterainment" would hold up a lot better then.

>As far as the corner- without
>the capability of using profanity
>and a great deal of
>items like guns and or
>drugs and or drug use
>(these are not things that
>are accustomed for basic cable)...

Again I say, does BET show documentaries? Remember a few years ago when NBC showed the full uncut, noncommercial interrupted version of Schindler's List? Full frontal nudity and all. That was on network primetime TV. If they can do it, BET can too (if they really wanted too). You ever watch South Park on Comedy Central? The language there is much more blue than anything I saw on "The Corner". I dunno K. They could throw a TV-MA and a warnig on it and show it.

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