@MollyTruLife 517677 wrote:
I assure you we are not dodgy… Just the mere nature of this show does make it difficult to find real stories, considering half the people are scared they will get in trouble and half do use molly responsibly.
True life never demoralizes its more serious subjects. There are people out there who may have let their recreational drug use get out of hand, and may want to share their stories.
You are part of a legitiimate production company (media researchers are security checked to keep our users safe) and might not be dodgy to USA viewers who are familiar with your other projects, but 80% of these forums younger users are from Europe, where MTV has completely separate programming produced in Poland (used to be London but labour is cheaper in Poland) – I system tested a large chunk of their playout when I worked as a broadcast engineer in the 90s..
As well as different tech standards, European productions are made with different editorial codes and the way you have approached the forum users (asking for a substantial amount of personal information) would make them very suspicious and in some cases is legally questionable (as a number of our regular users are aged 16-18 and classed as minors under European law).
I don’t know what the exact FCC production code is but MTV USA does have well documented censorship including against “pro drugs” content, and independent companies do not have the clout to buck this if they or their staff want to stay in work!
Anyway UK production companies were doing (or trying to do) stuff like this about 20 years ago and for the reasons Mezz mentioned it just backfired on everyone, including the small independent production companies and their staff as they got “ghettoised” – if anything it caused long term damage to the music and creative media industries of the UK, which even today are judged as “run by druggie scum” – a lot of folk who were around then have not forgotten this.
