BRAVE JUDGES MAKE THE AIRWAVES SAFE AT LAST FOR UNSCRIPTED NUDITY [JUSTICE MALFUNCTIONS]
Brave Judges Make the Airwaves Safe at Last For Unscripted Nudity [Justice Malfunctions]
In a landmark decision for bodice rippers and the networks who love them, a trio of federal judges today threw out the FCC’s $550,000 dustlike against CBS for the Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” that unclothed Janet Jackson’s right breast in 2004. The damning decision resulted in a piteous mock by Justin Timberlake at last night’s ESPY Awards and, worsened still for the FCC, essentially wiped discover the upgraded decency standards implemented after the broadcast — at least for live shows, which required the judges to buy CBS’s defense that the cut slip was an “accident.”
Laugh all you poverty (we’re right there with you), but hey — it worked. Follow the jump to read why.
“The transmission of written misbehaviour or crude touchable in prerecorded programming would likely show recklessness, or haw modify constitute grounds of actual knowledge or intent,” the judges wrote. “But when unwritten crude touchable occurs during a live or unprompted broadcast, as it did here, the FCC should show that the broadcaster was, at minimum, reckless in causing the crude touchable to be transmitted over public airwaves.”
The FCC argued that CBS was reckless in allowing the incident to occur. But the judges sided with CBS, which had argued the incident was unwritten and that the meshwork had tried to prevent it by having “numerous playscript reviews and revisions” and “several furniture checks” and by implementing a five-second audio delay of the broadcast. CBS said recording delay technology was not available at the time.
The best part of the judgment, though? As neither politician nor Timberlake are CBS employees, the meshwork isn’t responsible for their actions, premeditated or otherwise. And suddenly, we can’t move to wager what a salivating Rupert author pulls discover of his sleeve for Super Bowl XLIII next February; if this decision wasn’t an incised invitation to initiate The Moment of Truth — Halftime Stripper Edition, then we don’t know what would be.
[Photo: Getty Images]
Source: feeds.gawker.com
Damn I?m Old: Celebrity Birthdays
These celebrities were born on July 17: M.I.A is 31. Eric Winter is 32. Phyllis Diller is 91. Kar Wai Wong is 52. Molly Parker is 36. Camilla Parker-Bowles is 61. David Hasselhoff is 56. Mike Vogel is 29.
These celebrities were born on July 17:
M.I.A is 31.
Eric Winter is 32.
Phyllis Diller is 91.
Kar Wai Wong is 52.
Molly Parker is 36.
Camilla Parker-Bowles is 61.
David Hasselhoff is 56.
Mike Vogel is 29.
Source: www.damnimcute.com
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