Remember the original wardrobe malfunction?

[PennLady]

Gosh, it only took close to eight years to settle this...

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/2...for_wardrobe_malfunction.html?cmpid=124488429

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals here said today that the Federal Communications Commission "arbitrarily and capriciously" departed from a prior policy exempting "fleeting broadcast material" from indecency in the Janet Jackson wardrobe-malfunction case.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Sanity at last!

I don’t know whether there was a true malfunction, or a publicity stunt, but in any case Jackson was wearing a pastie, or breast petal.


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6q-f-zD4xPY/TG9uH3jjgNI/AAAAAAAAYrs/F_8L_7VAUIc/s1600/JanetJacksonWardrobeMalfunction.jpg


So, where’s the beef?

 

[PennLady]

Good point. And for the, what, split-second it was on TV, I bet hardly anyone except the 10 people who repeatedly complained were at all traumatized.

 

[sr71plt]

Seeing it live didn't traumatize me. Seeing this still photo of it does.

 

[PennLady]

Seeing it live didn't traumatize me. Seeing this still photo of it does.

Hahahaha. Very true.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Good point. And for the, what, split-second it was on TV, I bet hardly anyone except the 10 people who repeatedly complained were at all traumatized.

I think it was closer to 8 people out of 100,000,000 that complained, actually.

 

[3113]

I think it was closer to 8 people out of 100,000,000 that complained, actually.

And the 99,999,992 remaining still have the tape recording they made of that game and its memorable half-time

 

[oggbashan]

Good point. And for the, what, split-second it was on TV, I bet hardly anyone except the 10 people who repeatedly complained were at all traumatized.

And if they had been watching almost any European channel they wouldn't have cared a hoot because bare tits are commonplace.

 

[3113]

Sanity at last!

I don’t know whether there was a true malfunction, or a publicity stunt, but in any case Jackson was wearing a pastie, or breast petal.

Perhaps my memory is wrong, but wasn't that held on with a nipple piercing making the bare nipple the center of the "sun" there?

And I think it was pretty clear that it was a stunt, not a wardrobe failure, because why would she be wearing that on her breast if she hadn't meant to show it off? It's straight out of a burlesque (no pun intended on your name there ).

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Waste of time, money, and gov't resources to come to a conclusion about this bullshit malfunction.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... why would she be wearing that on her breast if she hadn't meant to show it off? ...

Well I am fairly certain that she wasn’t wearing a pastie so her areola would not show through her black leather jacket. I am relatively convinced that particular style would be useless if she meant it to prevent showing a nipple erection. So, it rather appears that Jackson may have been wearing it as part of her costume,which was intended to be seen.

However, I don’t wish to cast aspersions, not after the Supreme Court has given her their blessing. Who am I to know? Perhaps she is superstitious? At all important performances and public appearances she might always wear her lucky pasties.

I only wish to thank God that the long, grueling, public ordeal is over, and Janet Jackson can once again get back to doing whatever it is that she does do. And Fox Television Stations were saved from having to pay that debilitating fine.


P.S. No offense taken about my name. Just don't snap my g-string.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Will this have an un-chilling effect?

Starting on Veterans Day 2001, ABC used to air "Saving Private Ryan" uncut and with limited commercial interruption. The 2004 airing was pre-emptioned in many markets because of the language, in the backlash of Super Bowl XXXVIII's halftime show controversy. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan

As the son of WWII veteran - who landed on the beach portrayed in the movie, 11 minutes into the fight - THAT was the real crime to me.

To me, this harkens back to the original "wardrobe" malfunction - which was a wardrobe malfunction at all: George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" being broadcast late night on a FM radio station - that received ONE complaint:
"John Douglas, an active member of Morality in Media, claimed that he heard the broadcast while driving with his then 15-year-old son." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words If was 2010 before U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled the FCC regulations regarding "fleeting" use of expletives were unconstitutionally vague.

Scary what a single pinhead of the world can accomplish!

 

[3113]

And Fox Television Stations were saved from having to pay that debilitating fine.

After 8 years, they probably spent more on legal fees then they would have paying the fine...but it's the principle of the thing right?

 

[Stella_Omega]

After 8 years, they probably spent more on legal fees then they would have paying the fine...but it's the principle of the thing right?

For Faux, it's the fine itself, no doubt. But for the rest of us, it is the principle of the thing.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

It is not the principle. It is not the money. Nor is it the waste of government resources. Certainly it was never in the public interest, which rapidly waned beneath the fervor of the next nine-day-wonder to come along.

It was bad judgement on the part of FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell, who first set the machinery of his powerful regulatory body off on an investigation into Jackson's “wardrobe malfunction.” Lost on Powell was Lao Tzu’s warning that if one is forever sharpening one’s knife it soon becomes blunt.

Once set in motion, the legal machinery ground slowly, precisely, finely, and in relative obscurity, until it arrived at the same decision that a more prudent, less heated reading of the law would have discovered originally.

So, don’t blame this misadventure on Janet Jackson’s tit. The tit that erred was Michael K. Powell.

Just be glad he is no longer chairman.

 

[sr71plt]

Tilt. It was a purposeful expansion of standards for what was appropriate to deliver on TV without forewarning. The FCC lost on holding the line on an existing standard. I know this is an erotica site, and we all are pleased the standard didn't hold (although in seeing the still photo of it, I'm not sure I'm all that pleased), but let's not reinvent history to please our preferences. The FCC chairman was doing his job.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

In early experiments, Sergei Eisenstein proved that the shortest amount of time an image in a montage requires to register on its audience's conscious mind is 1/5th of a second. According to record, Jackson’s breast was exposed for 9/16th of a second, or only three times the length required for viewers to be consciously aware of it.

Any sentient being would agree that this should qualify for clemency under the FCC’s prior policy of exempting "fleeting broadcast material" from charges of indecency.

Personally, I agree with the U.S. Court of Appeals that the FCC "arbitrarily and capriciously" departed from its prior policy. Whether this was from personal squeamishness, or at the the urging of the Bush Administration to placate their religious zealot base does not matter. It was Powell’s decision, and he made it.


For a more informed opinion than mine, and some kudos for where Powell was right, seek here.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Tilt. It was a purposeful expansion of standards for what was appropriate to deliver on TV without forewarning. The FCC lost on holding the line on an existing standard. I know this is an erotica site, and we all are pleased the standard didn't hold (although in seeing the still photo of it, I'm not sure I'm all that pleased), but let's not reinvent history to please our preferences. The FCC chairman was doing his job.

I admit, I was thinking something along these lines after I posted. Faux now has the go-ahead to flash titty... once every few months, say, for no more than 9/16th second.. good way to pull in a certain type of audience. Bread and circuses. Later it might be more often.

I got no problem with Janet's tit, but then-- my tastes differ from the mainstream in many ways.

 

[oggbashan]

The Sunday Sport shows how sophisticated we Brits are about exposed tits...

 

[Stella_Omega]

I don't expect sophistication about tits.

I don't expect them to be so powerfully obscene as to warrant five hundred grand in fines for showing one.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Back in 1971 MASTERPIECE THEATRE presented JUDE THE OBSCURE on PBS stations, and a few of the installments featured exposed breasts.

So I'm not sure what the problem is now, 40 years later.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Back in 1971 MASTERPIECE THEATRE presented JUDE THE OBSCURE on PBS stations, and a few of the installments featured exposed breasts.

So I'm not sure what the problem is now, 40 years later.

You mean the PBS stations that Faux news and the wingnuts have done their best to destroy on account of all of that unAmerican and Terrorist Content and No More Taxes goddammit?

You can be pretty sure of what the problem is, forty years later.

 

[Edward Teach]

You mean the PBS stations that Faux news and the wingnuts have done their best to destroy on account of all of that unAmerican and Terrorist Content and No More Taxes goddammit?

You can be pretty sure of what the problem is, forty years later.

Amen!

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

And to think that on NationStates, I always vote to let women breast-feed in public. LOL. I like the result: anchorwomen "distracting" the viewers by baring their breasts and giving their babies a little milk (and I get this mental image of Don Wildmon and company freaking out about it).

 

[michchick98]

I admit, I was thinking something along these lines after I posted. Faux now has the go-ahead to flash titty... once every few months, say, for no more than 9/16th second.. good way to pull in a certain type of audience. Bread and circuses. Later it might be more often.

I got no problem with Janet's tit, but then-- my tastes differ from the mainstream in many ways.

With all the commotion of Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction years ago, not much hoopla was made about the Nancy Grace wardrobe malfunction on Dancing with the Stars a few weeks back. Of course, with Jackson's incident first, live TV has been time delayed so no one saw anything...well, no one watching it on TV saw anything...the audience, judges and Tom Bergeron, however, caught an eye full.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLGM41M8L7A

Yeah, all the TV audience saw was her pushing herself against her partner Tristan McManus while the cameras moved away.

Here's a bit better link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...n-nipple-dancing-with-the-stars_n_982750.html