MTV ruins rain forest, trashes beach

MTV has long brung hype and hypocrisy to much that it gets its poopy paws on. Back when my area first got MTV (which was later than most American locales), it was an innovative, hip channel. But these days (since it got taken over by the greedy Viacom empire), it's a waste.

MTV likes to claim socially responsible values such as environmentalism and tolerance. I'm in favor of that - as long as it sticks to these principles. But this story proves that what MTV says is often different from what MTV does.

While filming its series 'Real World/Road Rules Challenge' on a Caribbean island that's part of Panama, MTV practically demolished the island. It destroyed a rain forest and utterly wrecked a beach. The island was littered with garbage, discarded scripts for the show, and pieces of paper bearing the MTV logo. (If it's a reality show as MTV claims, why the fuck does it need scripts?)

One witness said, "I have seen the aftermath of a tornado, and this was almost as bad."

Just as bad as this, MTV bribed police to keep locals away from the beach throughout the filming of the series - even though it's a public beach.

When locals were allowed to return after MTV had left, they found the island and beach in ruins and had to clean it up themselves.

I guess Viacom thinks it doesn't just own the United States, but the rest of the world too.

(Source: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2008/09/16/is-mtv-being-hypocritical.html;
http://sustainablog.org/2008/09/14/mtv-cuts-down-rainforest-for-reality-tv-show)