CBS fights ‘right breast’ fine
p2pnet.net News:- Janet Jackson’s right breast is back in the news.
CBS’ Moonves Vows To Fight Proposed Fine, says a header from Billboard here in reference to the possibility that the Federal Communications Commission might fine “CBS owned and operated stations” over the (in)famous Mammary Incident.
You remember – her breast ‘accidentally’ popped out during the Super Bowl telecast?
Justin Timberlake called it a “wardrobe malfunction”. FTCÂ chairman Michael Powell called it “classless, crass and deplorable”.
Moonves, speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour,” made it clear that he and other top Viacom brass are growing increasingly concerned about the chilling effect of the push in Washington, D.C., to police indecency on the airwaves,” says the story.
The FCC has threatened to fine each CBS owned-and-operated station that aired the incident $27,500, says an Associated Press report quoted here.
July 21st, 2004 at 1:56 am
It’s funny that television has for decades openly allowed the showing of topless black women – actresses or real-life people – as long as they show some defining feature of African tribalism(perhaps a tree-bark skirt or buffalo bone through the nose?)
Only a decade before the miniseries “Roots” brought nudity to commercial network television, “I Dream of Jeannie” was forced to cover up the star’s belly-button-exposing outfit. But then Barbara Eden is white.
There was an investigation into accusations that female US soldiers were being photographed in the showers at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison – a place with an established – and US government supported – policy of forced nudity for prisoners.
Who invents these rules, anyway? And why is it that public nudity is “acceptable” in some circumstances but a crime in others?
July 21st, 2004 at 3:08 pm
I find it to be the height of hypocracy when the uber-moralistic rigid right can on the one hand condone “Hot Iraqi Knights: Hot Sex Under Starry Skies at Abu Gharib” and on the other screech indignantly about Janet’s tit. The rigid right are the most disgusting peices of dung around. AFreeMan
July 24th, 2004 at 11:01 pm
JAZZ,
HOW ARE YOU TODAY. I, HAVE A SIZABLE RISE IN MY SPIRITS AND A UNBELEAVABLE OVER ABBUNDANT AMOUNT OF SONGS THAT ARE ALL NEW AND PLAYING INSIDE OF MY HEAD AND I CAN NOT EVEN EXPLAIN WHATS HAPPENING
July 25th, 2004 at 8:09 pm
to whoever reads,
MS. JANET JACKSON IS A HUMAN BEING THAT HAPPENS TO BE A WOMAN. THIS WHOLE ENTIRE COUNRTY OF AMERICA HAS BEEN ACTING EXTREEMLY RETARTED, WE ARE SUPPOSE TO SAY HOW WE FEEL ABOUT A WOMANS BODY WELL LOOK AROUND AT EVERY WOMAN AND YOU WILL SEE THAT THEY ARE ALL BUILT THAT SAME WAY PHYSICALLY. A CHILD COMES FROM A WOMANS BODY, AS WELL AS EVERY FACE THAT YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. NOW YOU TEACH THESE KINDS TO HATE WOMEN WHILE YOU THINK YOU ARE HARRASING DEAR JANET AND THE KIDS ARE STUDING YOUR OVER REACTION TOWARDS A WOMAN AS IF YOU HATE HER OR ALL WOMEN, WHEN THE TRUTH IS THAT EVERY WOMAN AND MAN IS CREATED BEAUTIFULLY, AND WE SHOULD BE AMERICANS ENOUGH TO ACKNOWLEGE A GREATER RESPECT FOR ALL HUMAN LIFE HAVING THE SEPTEMBER, 11,2001 EXPERIANCE WE SHOULD ALL BE REACHING OUT TO EACH OTHER WITH LOVE CREATIVELY, COMPLETLY.
April 26th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
i think you are right. You have said all i try to say to people. Thanks.