MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general?
I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.
If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.
The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.
Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.
I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.
When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.
I remember doing 'La Bamba' and thinking, 'Do you really think that Latinos will be accepted in mainstream?' and I said, 'Someday I hope so, but there is no guarantee.'
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.
