TMC
08-13-2019, 04:06 AM
https://rockandrollglobe.com/music-journalism/remembering-the-glory-days-of-mtv-news/
I say this with all the earnest, tight-jawed, almost fevered pretension that you have only when you are in your twenties, when it seems like the night-blooming fragrance of a great city is opening up in front of you:
Those of us at MTV News in the 1980s thought of ourselves as the conscience of the network. We really did. We were the annoying over-chatty boyfriends of the nation, insisting on telling you about B-sides and Syd Barrett solo albums when all you wanted to do was enjoy your dinner.
I say this with all the earnest, tight-jawed, almost fevered pretension that you have only when you are in your twenties, when it seems like the night-blooming fragrance of a great city is opening up in front of you:
Those of us at MTV News in the 1980s thought of ourselves as the conscience of the network. We really did. We were the annoying over-chatty boyfriends of the nation, insisting on telling you about B-sides and Syd Barrett solo albums when all you wanted to do was enjoy your dinner.