I recently caught a couple episodes of the Jersey Shore on MTV as they were playing a marathon. I saw the episodes where Snooki got punched by a guy and the aftermath of everything. During the telecast they blacked out the screen when she actually gets punched, but they leave the audio going so you can hear everything that is going. I went to youtube to see if I could find the actual video of her being hit. I typed in Snooki and the number one searched thing that comes up is Snooki gets punched (not sure if this has anything to do with what people think of her or not, but that's seperate). Anyway, it came up and I saw it.

My problem with this is that you're censoring something that I don't think is bad enough to censor. I understand and fully believe that hitting women is wrong and a guy should never do that, but you're blacking out something that is readily available on youtube with the click of a few buttons. If MTV is going to censor this part of the episode then they need to have everything removed from youtube as well. If youtube is showing this clip and it is up there in many different videos then MTV should censor it from when they play the episode.

When MTV is showing other shows that depict drug use on the air, how is that any less worse? You're showing people shooting up heroine or smoking crack, but you won't show a girl getting punched?The point of this isn't a need to see a girl get punched, but rather some responsibility by MTV to monitor and censor everything accordingly. If you're going to censor one thing then how can you justify not censoring something else when it is just as bad if not worse.

I can understand if MTV felt an obligation to take off Snooki getting punched if she went to them and asked for it. But if there are videos of this on youtube it must mean that MTV showed this clip when it originally airing the episode. If they felt they needed to air it then why not just keep showing it in future episodes?