Legal/Government
One lousy breast -- not even with nips!
This whole bare breast superbowl fiasco is plain ludicrious.
First, the US is so puritanical that one lousy breast, sans nips (!) causes a big stink. In europe people would've chuckled at the screw-up and and paid it no further attention.
Second, the FCC has launched an investigation. What for? There was a boob -- I saw the picture myself!! What is there to investigate?
Third, the FCC is talking about fines:
CBS faces a Federal Communications Commission investigation into whether the Super Bowl show violated decency laws, with potential fines of up to $27,500. If applied to each CBS station, the fine could reach into the millions.
Millions of dollars of fines? What would've happened if the pasty ripped off too? Ooops, sorry we'll have to execute you for that horrible crime. Gimme a break!
Last, but not least I'm really happy that CBS is getting the shaft -- afterall they refused to air the Bush in 30 seconds clip, since it they do no accept advocacy advertising. Never mind the anti-smoking ads and various white house commericals they play all the time. But controversial half time shows are apparently OK. So, maybe those big fines don't sound so ludicrous anymore. :-)
Posted by Mayhem at February 4, 2004 05:09 PM
I'm not disputing anything else above, but that was not actually a pasty. It was a nipple shield. Nipple shields do nothing to hide the nipple, they just decorate it. Now, the idea that a breast with a nipple is more offensive than a breast without a nipple is ludicrous in itself, but I just thought I'd clarify.
