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Boobs Stymie FCC in Flashy CBS Boob-Boo
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At CornerBarPR.com®, we've been keeping abreast of the Federal Appeals Court panel's review of a not-insignificant $550,000 indecency fine the Federal Communications Commission imposed on the CBS television network for what everyone assumes was a planned mishap in a flashy Justin Timberlake-Janet Jackson tit-for-tat halftime performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004.
Without wasting time discussing the legal issues -- we're having too much fun with the more titillating parts of this story -- just know that the Appeals Court ruled in favor of CBS and exposed the FCC as boobs.
Although television often is called the "boob tube," only occasional do bad words and displays of human flesh get past the network "standards and practices" folks. When it happens, it usually is on a live broadcast, as was the case with the titillating Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction"; such displays always create a flap, which didn't seem to work in this case.
The actual malfunction likely was that the concealing breastular patch wasn't as easy to displace as Jackson and Timberlake had planned, as Miss Jackson later was proven to have worn a nicely designed silver sunburst nipple "shield" -- only one? -- which would have caught the lights just right, had it been easier for Justin to flip the flap.
Some thought the wobbly, bouncy Jackson must have been "in her cups," but clearly, her cups ranneth over -- albeit briefly. She and Timberlake were just having some pointed fun.
Endless replays made sure no one in the entire world with access to a television was deprived of an opportunity for exposure to the offending "nine-sixteenths of one second" that was caused by, and that was the cause of, this flap.
Quoting Mike Licht of the "NotionsCapital" Blog from 22 Jly 08, "His Honor must have forced himself to watch the video incident over and over and over again to make this [nine-sixteenths of a second] determination with such exactitude, and we salute his dedication to the cause of Justice."
So do we, Mike, so do we.