Pining for the glory days of MTV? When you think they used to play video after video after video? Well, unless you're old, you probably don't know that the early years had so much filibustering by their VJs that you may now realize why Tila Tequila and LC are what props up the ratings. Here's an hour of content from 1983, featuring a few videos, some commercials and a whole lot of VJ Mark Goodman. (more MTV olden times at appelogen.be, via Boing Boing)
"The most appalling of
McGruder's reckless charges was that BET 'does not serve the interest
of black people.' Our response to this slanderous assertion is that the
500-plus dedicated employees of BET do more in one day to serve the
interest of African-Americans than this young man has done in his
entire life." — Robert Johnson, President and CEO, BET Holdings, Inc. [full story here]
