The Morality Game
UPDATE: SF Chronicle Columnist Mark Morford hits it on the head!
The PBS Kids Sprout network has fired the host of "The Good Night Show" after learning she had appeared in videos called "Technical Virgin."
The host, Melanie Martinez, had alerted network officials about one of the videos late last week and she was immediately taken off the air.
"PBS Kids Sprout has determined that the dialogue in this video is inappropriate for her role as a preschool program host and may undermine her character's credibility with our audience," said Sandy Wax, network president.
In the two "Technical Virgin" videos - made before she landed the children's show job - she spoofs PSAs about how young women can keep their virginity.
Full Article, SF Chronicle, July 24, 2006
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My letter to the SF Chronicle:
Dear Editor:
Hey boys and girls, let’s play The Morality Game!
Whose face and comments should be on YOUR television screen every day?
Melanie Martinez, the popular and delightful host of "The Good Night Show", who in the past spoofed those ridiculous “public service announcements” on maintaining virginity that are about as convincing as “Reefer Madness” was to preventing marijuana use?
Or a man whose cabal has stolen the Presidency twice, who has killed nearly 2,600 Americans and untold tens of thousands of Iraqis so far, with hundreds of thousands more Iraqis to die long agonizing deaths thanks to the strewing of depleted uranium throughout Iraq, all to ensure that the multinational oil cartel controls the supply of oil and thus can maintain high prices and exorbitant profits?
Sincerely,
Terry L. Clark
The PBS Kids Sprout network has fired the host of "The Good Night Show" after learning she had appeared in videos called "Technical Virgin."
The host, Melanie Martinez, had alerted network officials about one of the videos late last week and she was immediately taken off the air.
"PBS Kids Sprout has determined that the dialogue in this video is inappropriate for her role as a preschool program host and may undermine her character's credibility with our audience," said Sandy Wax, network president.
In the two "Technical Virgin" videos - made before she landed the children's show job - she spoofs PSAs about how young women can keep their virginity.
Full Article, SF Chronicle, July 24, 2006
______________________
My letter to the SF Chronicle:
Dear Editor:
Hey boys and girls, let’s play The Morality Game!
Whose face and comments should be on YOUR television screen every day?
Melanie Martinez, the popular and delightful host of "The Good Night Show", who in the past spoofed those ridiculous “public service announcements” on maintaining virginity that are about as convincing as “Reefer Madness” was to preventing marijuana use?
Or a man whose cabal has stolen the Presidency twice, who has killed nearly 2,600 Americans and untold tens of thousands of Iraqis so far, with hundreds of thousands more Iraqis to die long agonizing deaths thanks to the strewing of depleted uranium throughout Iraq, all to ensure that the multinational oil cartel controls the supply of oil and thus can maintain high prices and exorbitant profits?
Sincerely,
Terry L. Clark
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