Today, Channel One urged their captive audience of children to watch MTV
tonight. MTV has become a major partner of Channel One and few parents
know this. A former C1 anchor who now appears on MTV was back on
Channel One today to pitch a show tonight about gangs.
Jim Metrock said, "Being required to watch Channel One News is a
nasty way to start a school day. Maybe some parents don’t want limited
school time taken up by depressing stories about anthrax, youth crime,
drug addicts, terrorists and thugs that belong to gangs. It is also sheer
insanity for a public school to be promoting one of the sleaziest cable
channels on TV – MTV."
If you think that it is harmless for Channel One to be urging schoolchildren
to watch MTV, here are two current shows on MTV.
Above: MTV is paying Channel One to
promote its disgusting TV network. Here is a scene from "Dismissed". This
show comes on immediately after the MTV show that Channel One promoted
today. The woman is showing the camera her "tongue ring" and
says she guesses the guy she just met will stick around to see what
she can do with it. Raunchy sexual content is the standard on
MTV.
Above: This hot lesbian scene is
routine on MTV. "Anything goes" seems to be the motto of
this outrageous channel. This scene comes from "Undressed."
There will be much more MTV on Channel One during the next few months. Primedia’s
CEO Tom Rogers boasted last month that Channel One would increase its dealings
with MTV.
Here is the script from today’s segment on gangs. This is what Channel
One calls a "teaser" to get the kids to watch MTV tonight.
MTV wants those who tune in tonight to stay and watch more MTV shows such
as "Undressed" and "Dismissed." These
are just two of the vulgar shows on MTV.
[INTRO GANGS]
[AIRDATE=11/19/01]
[PRO=ENAS]
[TALENT=MARIA]
[MARIA](MARIA)
IN RECENT WEEKS, WE’VE GOT MIXED REPORTS ABOUT GANG-RELATED
CRIME. ACCORDING TO ONE FOUR-YEAR-LONG STUDY… THE PERCENTAGE OF TEENAGERS
WHO REPORTED THAT THEY HAD GANGS IN THEIR SCHOOLS DROPPED BY ALMOST HALF.
AT THE SAME TIME, LOS ANGELES COUNTY REPORTED THAT GANG RELATED VIOLENCE
INCREASED TEN PERCENT THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR AFTER HAVING ALREADY
GONE UP BY HALF LAST YEAR.
(OC TURN)
FORMER CHANNEL ONE REPORTER SERENA ALTSCHUL, WHO’S NOW
AT M-T-V, HAS BEEN LOOKING INTO GANG VIOLENCE. SHE JOINS US NOW FROM THE M-T-V
STUDIOS IN NEW YORK. HI SERENA.
[Serena](SERENA)
HI, MARIA. IT’S HARD TO FIND ANY ONE REASON WHY GANG VIOLENCE
GOES UP OR DOWN, BUT ONE THING’S CERTAIN… ONCE YOU GET IN A GANG, IT’S
TOUGH TO GET OUT. I SPENT SEVERAL WEEKS LOOKING INTO THE WORLD OF GANGS
FOR A ONE HOUR SPECIAL TONIGHT ON M-T-V.
[GANGS-1]
GANGS AREN’T JUST CONFINED TO BIG CITIES OR ETHNIC GROUPS.
OKLAHOMA CITY, HAS CLOSE TO 100 SETS OF GANGS. AND HERE, GANG VIOLENCE
IS ON THE RISE.
(Serena driving to meet Kat & Robert)
Serena: We just pulled up to the house of some white gang
members, living in Oklahoma and we’re gonna talk to them about what they
do here, in their gang.
I WENT INSIDE TO MEET A GIRL NAMED KAT AND HER BROTHER
ROBERT.
(Kat & Robert)
Kat: We’ve had drive-bys, gang fights.
Serena: Right here, at this house?
Kat: Right here, at this house. I’ve had an ex-boyfriend
that got shot in the head out here in my driveway, my cousin got shot
in the back in a drive-by about seven years ago, in a drive-by, and he’s
paralyzed from the waist down. It’s bad in Oklahoma, I ain’t gonna lie,
it’s bad in Oklahoma.
OKLAHOMA CITY TAKES ITS GANG PROBLEM SO SERIOUSLY THAT
IT HAS AN ENTIRE POLICE UNIT DEDICATED JUST TO FIGHTING GANGS.
(Riding w/ Jerry)
Jerry: Ready, OK, let’s go.
Jerry: Right now, Oklahoma City has roughly about 4,800
gang members within the city limits of Oklahoma City, with about 100
sets of gangs. And when you refer to kids out here a lot of times you
hear that they’re wannabe’s. There’s no such thing. A kid out here, 13,
14 years old identifying as a gang member, regardless of the color of
his skin, is probably the most dangerous of any of the gang members that
you can run into because. because their trying to prove their status
and get their recognition.
(Kat & Robert)
Kat: When I was growing up, I was hanging out with the
Crips, you know, and then I started hanging out with the Bloods, and
then I met these guys from ISD and that’s when I really started going
down with it.
AND AS SHE GOT MORE INVOLVED, ROBERT ALSO BECAME ENTICED
BY THE GANG AND THE ALLURE OF DRUGS.
(Kat & Robert)
Kat: (looking at pictures) See, he used to be sweet. He
used to be a sweet guy.
Kat: He’s 17 years old and you don’t know what’s going
on. You don’t know if he’s laying in a ditch somewhere dead or anything.
It’s bad. Like when he came home with this I woke up and I looked at
him and I said who jumped you this time? Cause he’s got a lot of enemies
and a lot of people know him, and a lot of people don’t like him.
(Riding w/ Jerry)
Jerry: Oklahoma City sits on what we call the pipeline.
I-40 is a direct connection between Oklahoma City and Los Angeles and
goes all the way to the east coast. I-35 runs North and South. Puts us
into Mexico and goes up into the northern parts of the United States.
Serena: So you’re a drug trafficking target. You’re a
bulls-eye.
Jerry: We’re called the pipeline, for narcotics trafficking.
What we see here is a lot of stealing, a lot of breaking in houses, a
lot of stealing cars, a lot of breaking in cars, stealing stereos, if
they’re not dealing dope. For the most part, we see our gangsters here
though, slinging that old dope.
(Kat & Robert)
Serena: The drugs, meth goes hand in hand with this gang
in particular?
Robert: It’s the money maker. It’s what everybody wants.
Kat: Everybody wants money, you gotta get the money. Nobody
wants to work.
Serena: And it’s the fastest way you know how to make
it? Kat: Yep, yep, nobody wants to work, everybody wants money fast.
(Riding w/ Jerry)
Jerry: Let them get around, we’ll come behind them, they’re
after somebody.
AS KAT AND ROBERT EXPLAINED,THE LURE OF BEING IN A GANG
IS OFTEN TO MAKE MONEY. AND THE DRUG BUSINESS IS NOTORIOUS FOR FAST MONEY.
(Drug Arrest)
Serena: They’ve got two people. One in the car and one
outside of the car. Oh my, something’s going on in there! So he’s handcuffing
one guy, and I guess he’s pulling him out of the car on this side. Oh,
really young, a kid, OK.
Jerry: We came up here, this kid that we pulled out on
this side starts stuffing this dope under the seat and they thought he
was going for a gun so that’s why you saw the guys with their guns and
stuff pointed at him. Seventeen years old, little gang member in the
neighborhood area, you know, concentrated with gangs and dope, that’s
all this is.
(Kat & Robert)
Kat: All the gangs sell dope, all the gangs shoot people,
all the gangs go out and do drive-bys. Somebody in the gang is going
to go out and rob somebody, somebody in the gang is gonna go out and
start trouble with somebody, and somebody in the gang is gonna go and
hit somebody up and somebody is gonna return fire and get retaliation
on them. There’s somebody in every gang that’s gonna do something wrong.
I mean I ain’t saying that we don’t do nothing wrong, cause we do. We
have done a lot of things wrong. But I don’t want to say too much. I
don’t want to walk out of my house and get shot cause I said something
wrong.
KAT’S FEAR OF RETALIATION FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST HER
GANG ISN’T UNCOMMON. AND THAT’S WHY THERE ARE VERY FEW OPTIONS FOR SOMEONE
WHO WANTS OUT OF THE LIFESTYLE.
(Jerry at Drug Arrest)
Jerry: It’s like a cancer. Once it takes hold, it’ll start
to grow, and once kids start to dabble with this you’re locked into it.
And once you start to identify with this gang presence, the peer pressure
to keep you in it is gonna get you wrapped up. And one of two things
happen when you’re in a street gang, one of two things, you either wind
up in jail or you wind up dead. Period.
[TAG GANGS]
[AIRDATE=11/19/01]
[PRO=ENAS]
[TALENT=SERENA & MARIA]
[SERENA TAG](SERENA)
AS YOU JUST SAW… SOME OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE I MET IN OKLAHOMA
CITY HAVE UNBELIEVABLE STORIES ABOUT GANG LIFE. TO SEE MORE OF THEIR
STORIES, TUNE IN TONIGHT TO THE NEWEST EPISODE OF MY SERIES, CALLED BREAKING
IT DOWN. IT AIRS TONIGHT ON M-T-V AT 10 P-M EASTERN AND PACIFIC TIME,
NINE O’CLOCK CENTRAL.
[MARIA] (MARIA)
LOOKS LIKE AN INCREDIBLE STORY. OKAY, SERENA ALTSCHUL
OF M-T-V, GOOD SEEING YOU AGAIN.
Jim Metrock said, "Local schools have no control over this content. This
report was a commercial for MTV pure and simple. The schools that still
have Channel One are doing a grave disservice to the community they are
suppose to serve."
(Fred Seibert who is in charge of Channel One’s "teen effort" is
one of the founders of MTV. He came up with the logo. In 2000, he resigned
as head of MTV’s online section to bring his MTV mind set to Primedia and
Channel One News.)
Above: Choi on MTV’s Real World Before Becoming A Role Model On C1.
