Tag Archives: MTV

You Too Can Do The Jersey Do

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MTV Gets Threats, Loses Advertiser Over Reality Show Jersey Shore

According to an unnamed “insider,” Fox News is reporting that MTV has had to hire extra security for its Times Square headquarters after receiving threats about its “Guido” reality show, Jersey Shore. After the show’s Dec. 3 premiere, featuring cast members self-described as “guidos” and “guidettes,” MTV staffers were reportedly the target of threats, according to Fox News.com. “The MTV …

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Italian-American Group Calls On MTV To Cancel Jersey Shore

An Italian-American group is calling on MTV to cancel its coming reality show Jersey Shore over anti-Italian stereotyping and the usage of the term “Guido,” which the network is using prominently in its promotions. A national Italian-American organization based in New Jersey says an MTV reality show that depicts Italian-American beachgoers as the “hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos” is offensive and …

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Jim Carrey On Prop 8

At last night’s MTV Movie Awards, Jim Carrey did a cute bit while accepting his award for Best Comedy Performance. Referencing the “good-looking kid from Twilight,” Carrey said, “Mmm, mmm, mmm. Somebody please overturn Prop 8.”

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Pedro Zamora Story Airs April 1st

MTV’s movie about Real World star Pedro Zamora airs on April 1st. Zamora was a pioneering youth and Latino HIV activist whose personal battle with AIDS riveted the nation after he was selected for the cast of Real World: San Francisco in 1993. He died the next year of an AIDS-related brain illness. Pedro was made by the same people …

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Queerest Real World Debuts

Last night MTV’s The Real World debuted its 20th season with a house cast that includes a gay man, a bisexual woman, and a transgender woman. Could be interesting. The cast house is located in the semi-scary nabe of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Via Good As You, here’s the full first episode.

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Obama Tells MTV “No On 8”

In an MTV interview scheduled to air twice today, Barack Obama repeats his contradictory position that he opposes gay marriage AND Proposition 8. Via Pam Spaulding: When an MTV viewer wanted to know what Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama thought of Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment on the 2008 California general-election ballot that would eliminate the right of same-sex …

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MTV To Start Taking Political Ads

He’ll be preaching to the converted, but it looks like Obama’s gonna get to put some ads on MTV after all, thanks to a reversal of long-standing policy at Viacom. “MTV Networks will accept political advertising that is national in scope, sponsored by a legally qualified candidate, a candidate’s official campaign committee, a nationally recognized political party, or the official …

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PozOrNot.Com

In a similar vein to HotOrNot.com, it’s actually spelled Pos Or Not, and it’s from MTV and Kaiser. Pos or Not, has a serious purpose (tasteful or not). The site, www.posornot.com, introduced in late April, is an H.I.V. education effort disguised as a game. It shows photographs and brief biographies of men and women ages 21 to 30, and asks …

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Rock The (Gay Kiss) Vote

MTV’s newest Rock The Vote PSA includes a gay interracial marriage (and kiss!) Fantastic. (Via – Visible Vote 08)

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