Thirty years ago today, MTV was born. Its first offering, The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," proved especially prophetic. It's not just that the scenic now trumps the sonic at the music-less Music Television. But the lip-synching, synthetic instruments, and plastic clothes of MTV's first video suggested an artificial future. Read my piece @ the American Spectator on how a current repository of reality television has always kept it fake.

Why you dissing MTV? They are always avant guard . . . for the worst in our culture and politics.

I love M and I love TV, but no thanks for MTV.