MTV News gets postmortem from The New Yorker

I interviewed Carson Daly at the TRL studio in Times Square for a feature in like 2001. For a guy with next to no charisma, he has carved out a nice career. If your best idea to resuscitate MTV is to revisit an old dynamic, though, you're basically admitting defeat. Now if they wanna run hours of Pop Up Video, that's different.

 

And he got head from Christina Aguilera! Possibly after Fred Durst, though.

Pop-Up Video (which was fantastic) was VH1.

 

Didn't he date a few movie stars during his TRL days? Must have had some charisma. Maybe you just weren't his type.

 

Weren't they owned by the same company? I seem to remember a lot of cross-pollination there. Would love to see some of Storytellers, Behind the Music and Unplugged.

 

JFC, if dating movie stars is the benchmark for having charisma...

 

"We shouldn’t be writing 6,000-word articles on telling people how to feel.”

At long last, someone finally comes out and says it. This is exactly what doomed MTV News's reboot, and it in part is what doomed Grantland and (from what I've read) it's about to doom the Ringer: just because the web gives you unlimited space doesn't mean you should try to use all of it at once. If you're going to churn out stories of that length, you need to write them for an audience, not just the other people on your editorial staff.

It's just like an SNL skit that is a hit at the table read but bombs in front of an audience. MTV News failed because it turned out bomb after bomb (often expensively so). After the first rush of publicity people just stopped paying attention.

 

MTV Grantland was a total disaster. Grantland was less so after it found its footing with the NBA, but it still had a guy in Japan writing about existential sorrow in the midst of a sumo wrestling profile.

 

Mr. McCarthy also incorporated TV into the annual movie awards and made the acting categories gender neutral. Likewise, when the Video Music Awards are handed out next month, winners will walk away with a trophy that will now be called the Moon Person — not the Moonman.

“Why should it be a man?” Mr. McCarthy said. “It could be a man, it could be a woman, it could be transgender, it could be nonconformist.”
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The original moon man award was based on the network's branding: they had planted a flag with a unique network just like the first man on the moon had planted a flag to call dibs in the space race. Why must such attempts at revisionist bullshit leak into such things? Who the fuck is offended by "moon man"? Neil Armstrong was a man. He landed on the moon first. Sigh

 

BUMP ...
Didn't know where else to put this and didn't want to start a new thread ...
Former MTV VJ - Jesse Camp - the worst MTV VJ ever, is missing ... Does not sound good.


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I'm a year late, but I won't apologize.

 

Did they ask any of the 8th Street Kids?

 

He's been found. Apparently not in any danger. From reports, he's been fairly transient for awhile now.