MTV Loses Its Head - A Top Story This Week

02/16/08
. MTV Loses Its Head was a top story on Tuesday. Here it is again: (antiMusic) As we sit here and ponder how one antiquated and clueless organization bestowed their highest honor upon an album that sold under 60,000 copies in the U.S., another institution of music cluelessness has lost their head. We're pretty sure that most Grammy voters haven't even heard said album but voted because they knew Herbie's name from his hit way back in MTVs heyday in the early 80s. Actually from around the same era that the Grammys gave Lionel Richie the nod over Prince's "Purple Rain" and Springsteen's "Born in the USA". Let's not forget how they made the flutey Jethro Tull into a metal band.

Now we learn that woman that has presided over the recent downfall of MTV and Vh1 is calling it a day. Wonder if she voted for Herbie? Canadian Press has the report: Christina Norman, who rose from a freelance production manager to become president of MTV, is quitting at the end of the month.

During a period in charge of VH1, she helped transform the network into a pop culture channel dominated by celebrity reality. [Big thanks for the Celebretardity. How about a Behind the Music about the fall of MTV?] - more on this story

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