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<p>February 4, 2004 -- After a day of crisis talks, CBS yesterday agreed to let Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake remain on this Sunday's Grammy telecast - but said it was working on new technology to censor any "inappropriate and unexpected events." The network, which has been under tremendous pressure to dump Jackson and Timberlake after their X-rated halftime antics at the Boob Bowl, said the new system was insurance against an encore performance.</p>

Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004 Post-Super Bowl, Bare Breasts on 'ER' Raise AlarmOnly days after the firestorm created when Janet Jackson exposed her breast during the Super Bowl, plans to air an episode of "ER" on NBC Thursday evening that includes a view of an elderly female patient's bare breast are raising serious concerns among the network's affiliates. Some NBC affiliates are so uneasy about the scene planned for the first night of sweeps that at least one station group executive described himself Tuesday as "considering what my options are" should NBC decide to air the hour with the exposed breast....

Howard Dean stepped into the culture wars this week by proclaiming as "silly" a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigation of the on-air smut that passed for halftime entertainment at this year's Super Bowl. "There's a great many far worse things on television that you can inadvertently turn on when you happen to be cruising through cable at regular viewing hours," Dean said from the campaign trail. He didn't explain how he would know, however, since he and his wife have repeatedly told us that they don't subscribe to cable television. Apparently, Dr. Dean didn't see Janet Jackson's exposed breast on...

<p>TV network CBS, reeling from the scandalous performance by Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl halftime show, said yesterday it will add an extra delay to its live broadcast Sunday of the Grammy Awards, which will feature appearances by the pop stars.</p>

Now we know why Michael Jackson throws towels and veils over his children's heads. His sister, Janet, might be on TV. Few things are more ennui provoking than discussions of Janet Jackson's breast, which she and dance partner Justin Timberlake infamously exposed for America's families during Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show. Like most grown-ups, I'd rather ignore Jackson and Timberlake, sort of the way you ignore children who think they're making a revolutionary statement by wearing their pants halfway down their backsides. With time, you figure, it'll occur to them why people keep talking to them as though English were...

Sports are supposed to remain as an inspirational oasis in our culture, a place where merit and performance, and even dazzling feats of prowess grab our attention. Too often in recent years, as professional sports has grown massively popular, the gap between athletic performance on the field and athletic misbehavior off the field has widened into a chasm. But the latest shocking sports news says something worse: now expectations of virtue in sports fans are also falling apart. Even before the sleaze parade known at this year’s Super Bowl unfolded, sports pages were lamenting what was happening at the University...

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CBS: Parents Must Protect Kids from Football Violence (2004-02-02) -- Executives at Viacom, the parent company of CBS and MTV, this morning reacted with surprise at complaints about partial nudity, off-color commercials and flag desecration during the halftime show of last night's Super Bowl. "We produce age-appropriate programming," said an unnamed Viacom spokesman. "Parents must protect their children from violent sports. That's why we broadcast the Super Bowl early Sunday evening, when most children will be at church services or working on homework and getting to bed early. What kind of parents allow their kids to stay up after 8...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sunday night's Super Bowl, noted as much for a slip of flesh by singer Janet Jackson (news) as for a close win by the New England Patriots over the Carolina Panthers, was the highest rated in six years, CBS said on Monday. Citing preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research, the network said the championship football game drew a 44.2 household rating, which represents the percentage of homes that own television sets. That was up 1 percent over 2003 and the best since 1998. The game's share, or percentage of television sets that were actually in use...

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou040201_jt_jackson.748494e6.html#poll Tell Us: Your thoughts on the halftime show Outrageous. Jackson, Timberlake should face charges Unfortunate. Accident or planned it was inappropriate Overblown. Don't think it was that big of a deal Different. Never seen anything like it. Fantastic. Most memorable, entertaining halftime show ever.

Note: This column contains language that may be offensive to some readers.When Jack Paar, television's late-night talk show pioneer, died last week at 85, every obituary mentioned the time he walked off his NBC show in a huff, angry that the network's censors had cut a joke he'd recorded the day before.  The joke turned on a misunderstanding of the letters "WC" -- the initials of "water closet," an Anglicism for toilet.  By today's standards, it was an almost completely innocuous story -- a somewhat labored yarn about an English tourist writing to ask whether a Swiss hotel room came...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel like giving CBS a hard time about their halftime show. Actually, I feel like giving CBS a hard time in general, but in this case there is just cause. ;) Chairman of the FCC, Michael K. Powell: mpowell@fcc.govFCC: fccinfo@ffc.gov 1-888-225-5322 (1-888-CALL FCC) Voice: toll-free 1-888-835-5322 (1-888-TELL FCC) TTY: toll-free (202) 418-2555 TTY: toll (202) 418-0710 FAX (202) 418-2830 FAX on Demand Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20554 You can also annoy CBS at www.cbs.com (scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "Feedback")....

I didn't have my senses offended by watching the SuperBowl half time show on Sunday. I don't watch football period. However, I haven't been able to avoid hearing about the aftermath of it. Judging from the reaction on all the talk shows on radio , from Art Bell to Rush, the NFL did not do itself any favors. The supurb game is not the talk around the water cooler. The talk is Janet Jackson's middle aged boob and the poor quality of both the half time show and the commercials. Since the FCC , CBS and the NFL is going...

Cabinet Room 9:55 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank the members of my Cabinet for their service to our country. I'm proud of the team I've put together to serve our citizens. These are good, honorable people who have come to Washington, D.C. to put the nation's interests above their self-interest. We had a good discussion today about our nation's priorities. Secretary Powell briefed us on the alliances, the strong alliances we have around the world, a deep desire to continue to work with nations to bring freedom and peace around the world. The Secretary of Defense briefed...

Statement by NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue regarding the Super Bowl halftime show: "We were extremely disappointed by the MTV-produced halftime show. It was totally inconsistent with assurances our office was given about the content of the show. "The show was offensive, inappropriate and embarrassing to us and our fans. We will change our policy, our people and our processes for managing the halftime entertainment in the future in order to deal far more effectively with the quality of this aspect of the Super Bowl."

I don't believe the strong public reaction to Sunday's halftime show at the Super Bowl is about a bared breast. It's about people being scared. On some visceral level, we all suspect that we're just a bunch of clever savages who have somehow stumbled onto this marvelous system for living together in enormous communities in relative peace. We're not sure how it works, but we know it has something to do with self-restraint. Many of the things we "don't do" in our society (like baring breasts in public) are quite arbitrary. But they help us get across to children the...

Sheila Jackson Lee just entered it into the House Records on live C-Span that the 2004 Super Bowl held in Houston Texas was the best one ever and the best one to uphold family values.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Singer Janet Jackson (news) masterminded the Super Bowl halftime stunt that left her right breast exposed and prompted a federal probe into television indecency, the head of MTV said on Tuesday. "Janet Jackson engineered it," MTV Chief Executive Tom Freston told Reuters in an interview. The blame on Jackson comes on a second day of fallout after pop idol Justin Timberlake (news) tore off half of Jackson's black leather bustier while the pair were singing a duet, exposing her right breast at the conclusion of Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show. Freston, whose company produced the...

    Upcoming EventsHomeBack to Past Events Media Guru: Judy McGrath, President, MTV Group and Chairman, Interactive MusicJudy McGrath, longtime executive and creative leader of MTV, is our guest at March's Media Guru breakfast. In her present position, McGrath is in charge of MTV: Music Television and MTV2, as well as MTV Networks' music Internet operations – mtv.com, vh1.com and sonicnet.com. Under her direction, MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom, has grown from a maverick cable channel to a maverick global brand. From the beginning Ms. McGrath has helped MTV bring the creativity of music, to television. She and her...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- We are the MTV generation. It's a cliche, but it's true. The influence of the network that brought us "Beavis and Butthead," Britney Spears, "The Real World" and "Undressed" seems near ubiquitous among just about everyone under 30. It‚s been the babysitter, the teacher, the parent and the preacher for an increasingly secular and jaded youth. It has helped homogenize the culture of an entire nation of young Americans. And the only thing that beats MTV's destructive pervasiveness is its hypocrisy. It preaches safe sex while airing soft porn. It promotes gender equality while celebrating rappers who...