Queers: Americas New Nigger

The killing of Mathew Shepard was sad, there is no question. No matter what one might believe about homosexuality, any moral person should agree that nobody deserves to be beaten half to death, tied to a fence post in the middle of nowhere, and left to die slowly. Even the creators of the contemptuous god hates fags website state that they "[do] not support the murder of Matthew Shepard". However, no matter how abominable as his murder may have been, it does not make it right for MTV to use his death as a pedestal from which to preach their ideals to the youth of America.

Moreover, MTV along with all the major media outlets continually ignore crimes of a similar nature when a homosexual, or other minority, is not the victim. For example, you most likely never heard the name Jesse Dirkhising mentioned on the evening news. "Jesse Dirkhising died on Sept. 26 at the age of 13 from suffocation after being bound, gagged with underwear in his mouth, blindfolded, taped to the bed, and sodomized by one gay man while another gay man watched". MTV never made a movie about the death of Jesse Dirkhising. There were no nation wide candle light vigils held for Jesse Dirkhising. Forget CNN, MSNBC, or the supposedly fair and balanced Fox News Network; unless you read conservative news sources on the Internet such as Newsmax.com, or listen to conservative talk radio, then you most likely will never hear of Jesse Dirkhising.

The company that owns MTV, Viacom, also owns several other networks such as CBS, Nickelodeon, VH1, BET, UPN, TV Land, The New TNN, CMT: Country Music Television, and Showtime, not to mention Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster (a major book publisher), and Infinity Broadcasting (which "operates over 180 radio stations, the majority of which are in the nation's largest markets"). With all those media outlets under its control, Viacom is very capable of propagating any agenda it likes. Especially if you consider the age range these stations target. With Nickelodeon targeting young children, and CBS being known for targeting the elderly, Viacom has truly realized the concept of "cradle to grave" marketing.