Sorry --- that doesn't cut it --- not in this case. If I paid for MTV and then complained about it, sure --- I have the right to not buy it --- and I don't buy it. If the Superbowl had advertised that there was going to be live nudity, then I could change the channel or forbid my kids to watch it. This was all about deception --- putting this kind of raunchy act into something that is advertised as wholesome --- football.
I understand that, my point is that the raunch, the trash, was there before the finale and therefore the televison - one hopes - would've already been turned off. Heck, the television should've been turned off as soon as one heard that it was an MTV production with people like Janet Jackson in it. Don't try to argue that this was some big surprise and - my goodness, if I had only got a warning I would've turned off the tv.
Don't misunderstand me. I'm not protecting what they did. They should all be condemned and fined, but if you let your kids play on the railroad tracks and they get run over, the fault doesn't lie only with the brakeman.