Christmas on MTV
I’m no culture warrior, but you could make a good case for the war on Christmas just by looking at MTV’s holiday schedule over the years. While the channel used to pause and commemorate Christmas with pre-programmed videos played on a predictable loop, this Sunday’s line-up is entirely indistinguishable from any other day on the network: reruns of Teen Mom , followed by reruns of True Life, followed by reruns of something called Ridiculousness . “Christmas In Hollis” seems downright heartwarming by comparison. No doubt MTV will tacitly acknowledge the holiday with an animated snow-globe or twinkly ornament in the lower third of the screen, but that will be it. Every other channel churns out holiday-themed episodes; whither the Jersey Shore
