The black blogger opines about MTV2's possible decision to air a cartoon - called "Where My Dogs At?" - criticized as offensive for depicting black women behind led around on leashes by Snoop Dogg: "I have seen trash rapper Snoop Dogg and his mentor Don 'Magic' Juan abusing women for some time and I’m glad more noise is finally being made about it.....Watchdog group Industry Ears called the network on the carpet. I agree with their stance on this, although I can’t say I’m a full supporter of this group. Given they really got their start as an organization trying to bring back the 'Fairness Doctrine'. There’s nothing wrong with expressing displeasure about a broadcast, but trying to force government to make media outlets air your views is wrong.....Networks like MTV and BET are private cable subscription networks. So I don’t personally feel that the government should have any role in regulating them that it does not have over anything else that is private. With the exception of ensuring customers have an easy way to keep out broadcasts they don’t want. Anyone that wants Christian programming should not be forced to have signals with trash entering their home. Parents that want children’s programming should not be forced to have signals with adult material entering their homes. Of course if government had already better deregulated cable TV companies this might be less of an issue. Because then market competition would ensure various options were already available. So I guess my support of things like 'a la carte' programming is only because cable TV was never well deregulated."
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