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Mr. Springer's Neighborhood

BET is MTV's Bastard Child

As much as I rail against Black Exploitation Television, my remote occasionally pauses on the network (if for nothing else, to find something to talk about).

Such was the occasion yesterday when I stopped to watch what turned out to be three painful minutes of one of BET's new shows "Baldwin Hills."

180 seconds was about all I could take. The characters are dull and this seems like bad acting moreso than cameras following the lives of some upper middle class Negros.

Sadly, Baldwin Hills is yet another reflection of what BET has become.

Bob Johnson's sale of the company to Viacom (also home to VH1 and MTV, how's that for a music monopoly?) was supposed to bring BET to new heights. Being backed  by an industry powerhouse should've given BET more options in regards to programming, because, like it or not, money, or the lack of can effect quality.

Alas, this is definitely not the case. Most of BET's original programming are cheap knock offs of current MTV hits.
College Hill= Black Real World
Baldwin Hills= Black Laguna Beach
SOB= Boiling Points

While I think that many of MTV's shows play up the same negative and damaging stereotypes about Blacks that BET does (Hollyhood anyone?), the production value on MTV is leaps and bounds better than what we see on BET. The most glaring example of this have been the numerous techical mishaps that plague the BET Awards EVERY year.

What makes BET's fall even worse is that even when playing up to the LOWEST common denominator of Black Entertainment, they fail to even do that with a quality show, production wise.

Clearly, they are not a priority for Viacom.

Or we, the consumer do not have high standards for what we watch... even when we're taking in nonsense.

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