Since when did Bill O’Reilly start writing for the DFP again?

I’m tired of everyone, including whoever wrote the editorial on the Super Bowl Halftime Show, making Janet Jackson’s exposed breast the most overblown issue of all time. It’s become acceptable for kids to be exposed to horrible violence on the news and in the movies. Yet, when a woman shows her breast on television everybody has a heart attack because (GASP!) kids were able to see a part of the human body. I don’t see how kids seeing a breast gravely endangers our society.

The real travesty of the halftime show was that MTV was allowed a larger forum to showcase their network, and the god-awful musicians that they favor. Compare the lame, talentless hacks that were out there Sunday night to the performers that were around before MTV. Twenty or thirty years ago the most celebrated people in music were people like Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles. These people also shocked the general public, but any shocking acts were augmented by unbelievable musical talent and songs with real feeling. Today the most popular mainstream artists are people like Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, who rely on their good looks and leather costumes to distract people from the fact that their music is shallow and unoriginal. MTV has done to music what McDonalds did to food.

When I watched the Super Bowl at the GSU, there were a few younger kids who were around 11 or 12 years old sitting next to me. When the young Jimi Hendrix Pepsi commercial came on, they asked me and others who Jimi Hendrix was. The fact that they didn’t know that worries me more than what they saw at halftime.

Dennis Reardon CAS ’06 (617) 827-1358