People aren’t too happy about today’s cover of Quick. The Belo/Dallas Morning News product features the kiss between Britney Spears and Madonna on the MTV Video Music Awards a few years back as the cover picture for an article on MTV’s 25 year anniversary(granted the actual cover wasn’t censored).
I’m normally a proponent of free speech, mainly because I don’t want my rights trampled on. But considering this paper is distributed freely across the Dallas area I question the editor’s choice of pictures.
It is a shock photo and grabs your attention. I imagine it will help improve rack sells today, but is it worth it?
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The cover features the infamous kiss between Madonna and Brtianny spears that was brought to us on Viacom’s MTV. It’s no wonder Viacom is renaming their outdoor advertising business with the CBS brand.
In the minds of many, the Viacom brand has become a symbol of moral decay — a symbol of selling out people for the love of money. Many people overseas hate America because of the moral influence of our media — and this is an excellent illustration of the problem.
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