MTV is gearing up for its 2008 presidential coverage and presenting an opportunity for young people interested in television journalism. Please take advantage of this opportunity and ensure that the right gets some representation in the program:
Citizen journalists! Visionaries! Vloggers! This is your year. Now more than ever, the presidential candidates know that every vote counts, and that local campaign stops can be covered and spread worldwide by anyone with a cell phone. You have power.
As part of our collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Knight News Challenge, MTV is looking for one aspiring reporter from every state and Washington, D.C., to be part of our Choose or Lose team. We know that you're already hitting the streets and doing this work. So now we're giving you the chance to join a national team of journalists in covering this unprecedented election year from a youth perspective.
Ideal candidates will have their fingers on the pulse of issues that are important to young people in their states and be passionate about politics and the possibilities of new technology. Strong writing and reporting skills are a must. A distinctive voice and an authoritative point of view? Even better.
We'll load you up with some production gear and bring you to MTV's headquarters in New York City for orientation. In return, you will be expected to work in a paid, part-time capacity to file video, written or photographic stories weekly throughout the election year. Your pieces will be posted online and spread to mobile devices — and the top stories will be broadcast on MTV, MTV2, MTVU or MTV Trés each week.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation promotes journalistic excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of the communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers.
Requirements:
- You must be at least 18 years old by December, 2007.
- You must reside in the state you are covering from January to November, 2008.
- You must have the time and ability to travel within your state and file at least one video, written or photographic story per week.
Applications can be filled out and submitted at think.mtv.com The application deadline is September 21, 2007.
—Matthew Sheffield is Editor of NewsBusters.
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They will have to treat the interview like a debate class
August 23, 2007 - 10:07 ET by Dee BunkIf they don't play the liberal part, they won't get hired. I can't imagine MTV hiring anyone who appears to be conservative or libertarian.
Requirements:
August 23, 2007 - 10:07 ET by OiznopRequirements:
Call me uninspired but I
August 23, 2007 - 10:08 ET by Dan The Man 2Call me uninspired but I doubt if any conservative opinion will get on MTV or any conservative youngns will be accepted. I stopped watching MTV long agao and dont weven turn on VH1 anymore, I have been relegated to the Lawrence Welk area of time.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
Fairness Doctrine
August 23, 2007 - 10:12 ET by Sergeant ROCKThe Fairness Doctrine will put a stop to that!
That's the flip side
August 23, 2007 - 10:10 ET by Matthew SheffieldIf they are discriminated against, that itself is a story to cover.
It's win-win.
How would discrimination be
August 23, 2007 - 10:20 ET by NortonalecHow would discrimination be proven? MTV would not ask for the candidate's party, would they?
Nortonalec
Just what I want... the
August 23, 2007 - 10:17 ET by BruzillaJust what I want... the political views of someone who:
- Thinks Eminem knows what life on da streets is all about!
- Doesn't know any military leader except Captain Crunch.
- Detests guns but thinks songs about shooting people are edgy and cool.
- Thinks a proper education is spelled "GED".
- Thinks that being successful and wealthy is just caving to convention, while being a drop-out and adorning your body with tattoos and piercings, just like everyone else, is individualistic and makes you a better member of society.
- Can't figure out why no one will hire them after they get their tattoos and body piercings.
http://www.newsday.com/news/
August 23, 2007 - 10:56 ET by iveseenitallhttp://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-litras0821-pg,0,318729.photogallery?index=2
If this story doesn't make young people "conservative", nothing will. Look at the young white kids doing the clean-up the hispanics won't do.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
I don't see much
August 23, 2007 - 12:38 ET by BruzillaI don't see much conservatism in those pictures. I do see a lot of "you are hereby sentenced to community serviceism" in them though.
Eh, Bruzilla, nothing
August 23, 2007 - 12:51 ET by ErgoDyneEh, Bruzilla, nothing wrong with piercings or tattoos. I've got a total of 57 piercings and a great job, doing atherosclerosis/Alzheimer's research. It's all about the attitude. I don't think my piercings make me unique anymore than I think being female does. I just like the way it looks. =)
Unfortunately you're right, though, Bruzilla. Majority of the time, the pierced/tattooed crowd is a card-carrying member of the liberal elite, but not all of us. Some of us actually use our brains.
I think that dropouts are liberals that don't need the propaganda anymore, as they're already certified to never leave the fold.
Let's not judge books by their covers all the time. Sometimes us pierced folk will be wearing a shirt that says "Capitalism! Smash the welfare state!"
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." - Mark Twain
On eMpTyV (h/t to DT)
August 24, 2007 - 03:52 ET by UnsaneWasn't this the channel that, once upon a time, showed these short clips of videos set to music, or some such thing?
Once they took away Headbanger's Ball and Beavis & Butt-head, that was it. I don't think I have seen any MTV since then, except for three or four episodes of Jackass.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.