Hasta La Creative!

Later tonight, MTV will uncork the second season of "Jersey Shore," the reality series that does for attentive laundry administration what FDR did for grand-scale public-works projects. Immediately after it airs, some serious-thinking person will take to the internet, bemoaning the Snookification of American youth and preaching the perils of cavorting in non-staph-guarded Jacuzzis. And he or she will miss the point — not about "Jersey Shore," which doesn't exactly aspire to anything more than entertainment — but about MTV itself. There's a lot more on the responsibility side of the ledger than its critics care to admit.