Parents Television Council Not In Support Of Miley Cyrus Hosting the MTV VMAs

Tim Winter, the President of the PTC – whose mission “is to protect children and families from graphic sex, violence and profanity in the media, because of their proven long-term harmful effects” – revealed to GossipCop that he predicts the show will be “profane” and “sexually explicit.”

He warns, “Don’t show explicit content and rate it as appropriate for children,” and explained, “It’s not going to be safe for children to watch. So, they must rate it TV-MA.” It’s currently rated its usual TV-14 rating, but “With Miley’s shtick, it’s probably going to be very edgy, very profane, very sexually explicit.”

Winter said further,
As a parent of a teenager, the content from two years ago was clearly not appropriate for a 14-year-old. I think last year’s was toned down quite a bit. I think that came from advertiser pressure to not have a re-twerk. This year, clearly, they’re going to try to ramp it back up again. And based on everything we’ve seen Miley doing in recent years, she certainly seems angry and certainly seems enjoying being the provocateur.

  She’s dropping F-bombs in her announcement on social media, which isn’t unusual, but it tees up the kind of content.

That being said, he’s not 100% anti-Miley. “Miley’s the performer. She can do whatever she wants to. She’s hired to perform and be provocative.” He even believes she could be an appropriate host, commenting, “I think Miley Cyrus is capable of doing it if she so chose. She’s smart. She’s talented. She knows how to turn it up, turn it down if she so chooses.”

Winter added, “I think it’s unfortunate she built her entire career on the backs of parents and now she’s basically giving them the middle finger.” All in all, “This all comes down to dollars,” he says. “For many, many years, the MTV [Music Video Awards] show has been one of their tent-posts on the programming schedule. It usually has some sort of controversial content in it, and I think at this point in time, people can expect that.”