Hello all, being a part of the MTv generation, I do watch some programing on MTV. However, I watch less and less of these days because music is becoming less and less interesting because most music that has come out recently is a drag.
No doubt most of you may not favor the shows I do watch: Jack Ass, Viva La Bam, or the Real World. Here is a new reason to make your point against this kind of tv.
Viva La Bam is a "reality" (my conspiracy theory is that not too many reality shows are really reality) show who's cast is a bunch of wild young men from West Chester, PA who pull pranks on their parents and community. Apparntly they aren't kicked out of their community or home because surely the show racks in millions. Anyway, I saw an episode where one of them found a cannon ball in their back yard. They went to an antique store and the owner (who no doubt memorized his lines before the filming) stated that the shell was from the civil war and there was a battle near by. West Chesher, PA? Ya right. I looked it up and found that there was an infantry training camp near in 1861. But a battle? No.
Well, this gives the punks an idea. They invite reenactors to camp on their parents lawn, dig latrine ditches there, and have a battle. When asked when the civil war started, one guy was given three choices. Each time he got the answer wrong he would be kicked in the, you know. Well he picked 1860...and they said he was correct. Did the war not start a tad bit later than that?
Anyway, I just wanted to share with y'all the ignorance being watched and shared by millions. For the generation who watches MTV there was a battle in West Chesher, PA and the war started in 1860. In fact every episode there after Ram, the lead star of the show, wears his Confederate colonel's jacket taken at the reenactment.
What is even more sadder still is that films such as North and South and Blue and Gray give a just as fictional account of the Civil War as this MTV show. I think it is up to the reenactors, to take film school and put the only true story of the war out there. But who would care?