Word: fcc
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...Super Bowl performance by Jackson and fellow pop idol Justin Timberlake was yet another publicity ploy—it is of course no coincidence that Janet has a new album due out. Yet somehow, despite the predictability, inevitability and plain stupidity of these events, according to Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael K. Powell, this one performance warrants an extensive investigation...
...briefly exposed breast—its nipple coyly shielded by a solid silver sun—apparently caused severe emotional trauma to millions of Americans all across this fair nation who were inappropriately exposed to this intimate part of the female body. After the performance, the FCC received hundreds of thousands of complaints for the display. One Tennessee woman has vowed to sue both parties involved because the act caused her “serious injury.” But while the performance was clearly in poor taste, it certainly does not merit such a serious outcry?...
...obscene” material from finding its way into living rooms nationwide. In the wake of the silly Super Bowl controversy, NBC deleted a brief scene from the Feb. 5 episode of “ER,” which revealed the breast of an elderly woman. With the FCC looming overhead in loco parentis, the airwaves are submitting to ridiculous self-censorship...
...along were strangely familiar. Dartboard had last seen them in party-hosting dorm rooms filled with booze and pheromones. Astoundingly, viewers are meant to believe that this licentious behavior—nudity notwithstanding—is as all-American as the football it interrupts. At the very least, the FCC would have Dartboard think such a display more acceptable than saying one of George Carlin’s seven dirty words on television. But Dartboard knows better and will be sure to avoid the Super Bowl once he has kids, so as to protect them from the soft-core porn...
...Timberlake all should be heavily fined! The Super Bowl is a family show, not a strip show. The disgusting exploitation of women for money and ratings continues. If it had been a man's penis shown, I bet there would be a lot more people up in arms. The FCC has been asleep at the wheel for years. The entire halftime show was tacky, to include Kid Rock defacing the American flag. Sharon Hickey Houston, Texas...