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Article: Letters.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 15, 2002
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-- After reading Jonah Goldberg's "Ozzy Without Harriet" (June 1717), I watched The Osbournes for the first time, and it wasn't the anti-drug campaign that Mr. Goldberg describes.
MTV is making serious drug abuse something to laugh about, and The Osbournes does not show the reality of such abuse. Most addicts do not spend their lives in Beverly Hills, but on the streets of America, struggling to stay alive. Their lives are miserable, not funny.
Osbourne does look pathetic, but this won't discourage kids. MTV, the company that invented trash reality shows and glorifies teenage promiscuity, has once again trivialized a serious subject. To say that MTV is ...