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...This country takes exposed breasts very, very seriously." Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, on American outrage at Janet Jackson's partial nudity during the Super Bowl broadcast...
...conclusion that the government had no "dishonorable, underhand or duplicitous" plot to reveal Kelly's name to reporters once Kelly had told his bosses at the Ministry of Defense that he had met Gilligan but had not said all the things the reporter had broadcast. Yet the diary of Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, shows that he was obsessed with outing Kelly, sure that this would "f___ Gilligan." Hutton focused instead on the worry of some officials that if they concealed that a civil servant had come forward to criticize the WMD dossier, they would later be accused...
...evidence of Iraq's WMD, giving a different slant to his bosses and parliamentary committees and then despairing as he realized his dissembling would be revealed. But Hutton saved most of his fire for BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan for making "very grave" and "unfounded" charges in a live radio broadcast last May after he met Kelly. Gilligan reported that the government "probably knew" that a central claim in its dossier on Iraqi WMD--that some were deployable in 45 minutes--was false when the claim was inserted. Testimony to Hutton showed clearly that senior spies were responsible for originating...
...Baghdad airport for two and a half hours was a particularly fitting example. Encircled by soldiers, the president smiled widely for the cameras, carrying a huge platter with a giant golden-brown turkey, lavish trimmings and bunches of grapes. The image was plastered on practically every online site, television broadcast and newspaper front page, helping to amplify optimism about the deteriorating state of affairs in Iraq...
...There's no doubt that a punishment should be handed to someone, but who? CBS is responsible for the broadcast, MTV is responsible for producing the show, Janet and Justin are responsible for the lack of moral judgement and last but certainly not least are the parents of Janet and Justin for their failure to teach the difference between right and wrong. Chris Bragg Jane Lew, W.Va...