Three daytime music video shows on Viacom’s BET and MTV cable net...
Three daytime music video shows on Viacom’s BET and MTV cable networks wallow in sexual, violent, profane and obscene content, the Parents TV Council said Thursday. Deconstructing four weeks of BET’s Rap City and 106 & Park and Sucker…
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Free on MTV, the group tallied 2,989 instances of offensive or adult content, the report said. During March, the shows averaged one display of mature content -- vulgarities, scenes of a “sexual nature” and the like -- every 38 seconds, it said. In December, the average was one per minute, it said. Officials at BET and MTV didn’t immediately return messages to comment.