The pilot episode of "The Bedford Diaries," which concerns a group of college students attending a class on human sexuality, had already been accepted by WB's standards department. After the F.C.C. decision last week to issue millions of dollars in fines against broadcast stations, the network's chairman, Garth Ancier, contacted Mr. Fontana and asked him to edit a number of specific scenes out of the show, including one that depicted two girls in a bar kissing on a dare and another of a girl unbuttoning her jeans.
Janet Jackson showed Christofascist Amerika her titty. Something that none of them had ever seen before. There was outrage!
Now there's just paranoia. Way to go.
All for a tit, what George Carlin once described as "a friendly thing". Not for some folks, I guess. So much for the 1st Amendment. And tits.
One, the wardrobe malfunction was just the final note of an utterly stupid and utterly decadent halftime show. It merely epitomized the entire sorry mess. Don't know if you're a parent, Jo, but a lot of parents don't want their teens and preteens (a large part of the Super Bowl audience) being exposed to that sort of crap, and they have every right to expect that the publicly owned airwaves not be used to transmit it. Likewise, the First Amendment has limits on the public airwaves, a principle the Supreme Court has upheld time and again.
If you want to transmit crap, move to cable where people have to specifically ask for it. (And don't give me the "change the channel" line, since Janet Jackson, et al., are no different from someone pissing upstream in the general cultural flow; again, society has a right to restrict this in public.)
posted by: bean on 03.23.06 at 08:24 PM [permalink]
lol. A woman shows a nipple and this person feaks. Too funny. In his day, Goya was threatened with prosecuted by the Inquisition for "La Maja Desnuda" (a paitning of a naked woman on a bed). Of course, you do not have to take your kids to the Prado Museum, or any other art show, if such images offend you. This kind of thing does not effect children, hormones do!
How did you feel about the white woman dropping her towel for the black man? That equally appalling?
Desperate housewives was #1 in southern christian voting districts for a long time. Jerry Springer rules! All signs of a nation in moral decline.... really? More than disco and the open sexuality that was present in the 70's, before the boomers "found god" and decided to inflict hypoctritical rules on our kids...NAW! ROFLMAO! Easy to be pro life when you are 55 and married, not so easy when you are 16-29,and in trouble. Easy to be for the war when it does not effect your life. Just keep the tax cuts coming, and no draft. JAYSUS!
