p2pnet news | TV:- It’s definitely turning into a week for female celebrities and their body parts.

In 2004 a Super Bowl half-time farce featured Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction,” as it’s come to be known, and 20 CBS-owned TV stations were hit with the maximum indecency penalty of $27,500 for a total of $550,000, the largest fine ever imposed a TV broadcaster.

Now CBS is challenging the $550,000 fine levied against it by the Federal Communications Commission, says the Hollywood Reporter.

The broadcaster says the “fleeting, isolated or unintended” images shouldn’t automatically be considered indecent

With that in mind, will it now offer up the Vanessa Hudgens incident arguing the 18-year-old Hollywood children’s star went a whole lot further than Jackson, and no one seems to mind?

Fleeting and accidental glitch

Hudgens revealed not merely her left breast, but her all. And there was nothing fleeting about it.

But her exposure was online, not at the Super Bowl, which may make a difference.

CBS and the FCC, “offered arguments before three federal appeals judges who must decide whether the brief glimpse of

Jackson’s barely covered breast was indecent, or merely a fleeting and accidental glitch that shouldn’t be punished,” says the Hollywood Reporter, going on:

CBS Corp. lawyer Robert Corn-Revere said the network took many precautions, including choosing Jackson and Justin Timberlake over more provocative performers, reviewing the script, voicing concerns about ad-libbed remarks and applying a 5-second audio delay.

“I think the precautions CBS took even satisfied the FCC’s standards,” Corn-Revere said.

FCC lawyer Eric Miller argued that CBS was indifferent to the risk that “a highly sexualized performance” might cross the line.

Timberlake sang the lyrics, “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song,” and that’s exactly what happened, Miller said.

Some 90 million Americans, “watched Timberlake pull off part of Jackson’s bustier, briefly exposing her right breast, which had only a silver sunburst “shield” covering her nipple, during the halftime show,” adds the story.

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Also See:
half-time farce – Janet Jackson’s mammary memory, November 9, 2004
Hollywood Reporter – Court hears FCC, CBS on indecency case, September 12, 2007
not merely her left breast – Disney forgives Hudgens’ nude lapse, September 12, 2007

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