Nickelodeon and MTV went dark to support the kids on National Walkout Day
Throughout the day, kids have been walking out of schools—either with permission from teachers or without—to protest gun violence and the embarrassingly lax gun laws in our country that allow shootings like Parkland and Newtown to happen. To show their support for these young people, MTV and Nickelodeon both suspended all programming this morning for 17 minutes, one minute for each of the victims at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month. The Los Angeles Times shared some tweets showing what the two networks aired instead of regular programming, with Nickelodeon taking a soft approach by simply saying it was going off the air “in support of kids leading the way”: