MTV and Sororities

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Card,

If the program portrays Greeks as badly as I'm afraid it will, and it sounds like it will from the "inside" MTV sources, I suspect that these women will feel badly.

But my feeling is that MTV is the culprit here -- not the members of the chapter.

Again, I don't think they understood what they were getting into. Most people wouldn't.

The misrepresentation is more likely to come in the editing and directing stage -- taking things out of context -- and moving forward in an alleged "documentary" style while all the time having a preconceived notion of what the storyline will be.

Of course the chapter and the Greek System as a whole will suffer for it while MTV goes on its merry way and sensationalizes something else.

An, by the way, guess who's ultimate "fault" it is that MTV does this kind of stuff? Yours, my kids, other college students, Greeks, GDI's -- everyone who watches Road Rule, Undressed, Real Life (sorry if I get some of the names wrong, MTV isn't a favorite of my generation -- we have our own stupidities that we watch) and their other "reality" programs.

If nobody watched them, the genre wouldn't survive would it? I'm not trying to dictate your taste in TV, just saying that ratings are what perpetuate programming. If no one watched this sensationalism, it wouldn't last.

Obviously, if the women of this chapter had read the other threads when MTV was first searching for a group to videotape, they might not have done this. There were an ample number of us who raised a warning flag. But, they either didn't read it, or didn't believe what we said.

In the long run, I feel badly for them. They made a serious mistake -- but who among us hasn't at one time or another.

I just don't want our anger to be misplaced. It should be toward the producer, not the victim(s).