CBS Sorry Re Jackson's Breast Reveal On Superbowl

[Kooperman]

CBS sorry for Jackson's breast in show

Posted: 2 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS apologized on Sunday for an unexpectedly R-rated end to its Super Bowl halftime show, when singer Justin Timberlake tore off part of Janet Jackson's top, exposing her breast.

"CBS deeply regrets the incident," spokeswoman LeslieAnne Wade said after the network received several calls about the show.

The two singers were performing a flirtatious duet to end the halftime show, and at the song's finish, Timberlake reached across Jackson's leather gladiator outfit and pulled off the covering to her right breast.

The network quickly cut away from the shot, and did not mention the incident on the air.

It was unclear whether Timberlake intended to expose Jackson's breast.

Wade said CBS officials attended rehearsals of the halftime show all week, "and there was no indication any such thing would happen. The moment did not conform to CBS' broadcast standards and we would like to apologize to anyone who was offended."

The Super Bowl halftime show, which also featured Puff Daddy, Nelly and Kid Rock, was produced by MTV, CBS' corporate cousin in Viacom.

"We were extremely disappointed by elements of the MTV-produced halftime show," Joe Browne, NFL executive vice president, said. "They were totally inconsistent with assurances our office was given about the content of the show.

"It's unlikely that MTV will produce another Super Bowl halftime."

[Kooperman]

Once again the BeatKing reporters keep abreast of the news as it pops out...er...up.

http://www.drudgereport.com/

http://www.drudgereport.com/mattjj.htm

[Shawn]

I didn't see it, and let's face it, that's the sort of thing men zero in on.

Might have to wait a day or two to see the pics. ;)

[Shawn]

Once again the BeatKing reporters keep abreast of the news as it pops out...er...up.

It's kind of funny. We list 30 stories at a time on the front page.

The oldest story on there is from the 29th.

Averaging 10 stories a day.

[Kooperman]

I saw it very clearly live. I went in the other room where my wife was watching Lifetime channel and told her, "CBS just showed Janet Jackson's boob to millions of people."

Check out the links I provided.

[Kooperman]

It was the highlight of the show. Go Justin! You can see the 'breast' at Judge Report. Unlike her brother, hers looks all real

Is nobody seeing the links I provided to the Drudge Report?

[DudeAsInCool]

That's what I was referring to, Kooper.

[Kooperman]

The NFL is going to really scale down the halftime show to a more tame and safe venture nexr year, perhaps Barry Manilow or something ( get well Barry! http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-0...pitalized_x.htm )

This is a league called the No Fun league because of their conservative approach to things like end zone celebrations and displays of any kind of individualism. Look for heads to roll somewhere.

[Yoda]

Dammit how come I didnt get to see!!! I always miss the good stuff!!

[rainbowdemon]

A short video.

jkanet.zip

[DudeAsInCool]

Bush slept through risque halftime show

Feb. 2, 2004  |  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The early-to-bed president missed the Super Bowl's risque halftime show. But George W. Bush's spokesman said Monday the administration was concerned that the display wasn't family-friendly.

"I don't want to admit it, but because this White House starts early, I missed it -- again," Bush told reporters after a Cabinet meeting. "Saw the first half, did not see the half time -- I was preparing for the day and fell asleep."

"But you all can tell me about it," he joked to reporters.

Half time started before 8:30 p.m. EST. Sunday.

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/02/...show/index.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Feds Will Investigate Janet Jackson Flash

Feb 2, 5:46 PM (ET)

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY

(AP) Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson perform during halftime of Super Bowl XXXVIII Sunday, Feb. 1,...

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NEW YORK (AP) - Janet Jackson's boobylicious performance with Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl halftime show has sparked a federal investigation and set new standards for raunch in an entertainment industry that seems to be setting new highs - or lows - every day.

Gone are the days when a powerful performance is all that's needed to deliver a watercooler moment. Nowadays, a barely there outfit, same-sex smooching or foul language - and now, a flash of nudity - are what's required to get America talking.

"Every time an artist does something you think they sort of break the barrier, and it keeps getting more and more outrageous," said Tom Poleman, senior vice president of programming at New York City radio station Z100. "I think artists will keep on exploiting every opportunity they can get."

When Timberlake snatched off part of Jackson's bustier, revealing a breast clad only in a sun-shaped "nipple shield," the barrier was not broken, it was shattered before 89 million viewers.

Federal Communications Commission chief Michael Powell said in a statement, "Like millions of Americans, my family and I gathered around the television for a celebration. Instead, that celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt." He promised an investigation, with potential fines of up to $27,500. If applied to each CBS station, the fine could reach the millions.

Despite the apparent premeditation - the display coincided exactly with Timberlake singing, "I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song" - all involved denied that the peep show was planned.

"This was done completely without our knowledge," said Chris Ender, entertainment spokesman for CBS, which was deluged with angry calls. "It wasn't rehearsed. It wasn't discussed. It wasn't even hinted at. ... This is something we would have never approved. We are angry and embarrassed."

The NFL said it was "extremely disappointed." Several members of Congress, the Parents Television Council and the Traditional Values Coalition expressed outrage. Even halftime producer and CBS corporate Viacom cousin MTV - the network that has given us "Jackass," Diana Ross fondling Lil Kim's pastied breast and Madonna kissing Britney Spears at last August's MTV Awards - was contrite.

"Unrehearsed, unplanned, completely unintentional," said MTV.

But was it?

Although Timberlake issued a statement shortly after the show blaming the debacle on a "wardrobe malfunction," in comments to the syndicated show "Access Hollywood" right after the incident, he didn't seem too sorry.

"Hey man, we love giving you all something to talk about," he said, laughing.

Jackson's official Web site was bombarded with angry postings. Her spokeswoman, Jennifer Holiner, said a red lace garment was supposed to remain when Timberlake tore off the outer covering.

She said she was not sure whether Jackson's medieval-looking nipple decoration was meant to be seen, but added that the singer does wear such jewelry.

But the display still raised questions such as: If it was an accident, why did a choreographer promise "shocking moments" in an interview with MTV.com prior to the show? And how could it be a coincidence with the timing of the words to Timberlake's song "Rock Your Body"?

If it was indeed a stunt, it wouldn't be the first time Jackson has used her sexuality to grab an audience. Over the years, Jackson has evolved from a shy innocent who barely showed her ankles to a vamp who has bared almost all on regular basis.

A classic Rolling Stone magazine cover in 1993 showed a topless Jackson, her breasts covered only by the hands of her then-husband. At the time, she was promoting the album "Janet," which was described as her first time exploring sexuality in her music.

She has revisited that theme often. Promoting "The Velvet Rope" album in 1997, she appeared on the cover of Vibe wearing a nipple ring on the outside of her clothing. On her last album, "All For You," she appeared on the album's artwork nude, obscured only by a sheet. And in a recent HBO concert special, Jackson was seen running topless in a waterfall, though her breasts were barely visible.

And of course, Jackson has a new album, "Damita Jo," due out in the spring. The single, "Just A Little While," hit radio late last week. Already, the hype for the album promises a disc in which Jackson explores - what else? - her sexuality.

Asked whether he thought the strip tease was an accident, Z100's Poleman laughed.

"Are you kidding me?" he said.

Over-the-air TV channels cannot air "obscene" material at any time and cannot air "indecent" material between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The FCC defines obscene as describing sexual conduct "in a patently offensive way" and lacking "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value." Indecent material is not as offensive but still contains references to sex or excretions.

The FCC has come under fire from lawmakers and outside groups who say the agency hasn't done enough to shield the public from indecent programming. The Bush administration has endorsed a bill raising the $27,500 maximum fine to $275,000.

Last month, the FCC proposed a $755,000 fine against Clear Channel Communications for a program that aired multiple times on four Florida radio stations - a record for a single complaint. The largest cumulative indecency fine was $1.7 million paid by Infinity Broadcasting in 1995 for various violations by Howard Stern.

Over at Z100, whose audience tends to range from 12 to 34 years old, the radio station was playing Jackson's new single every two hours on Monday.

"All of our listeners, they saw right through it," Poleman said. "Nobody is buying for a second that it wasn't a setup, but at the same time, they're cool with it."

So were stores that sell nipple jewelry. In Greenwich Village, Cassioppia Tattoo and Piercing's owner Bianca Bubenik placed a newspaper photo of the singer and her exposed breast in a display case alongside nipple decorations similar to the one Jackson wore.

"She's coming out with a new CD soon," Bubenik said. "We were just discussing it this morning - it's a publicity stunt."

And it has people talking at just the right time about Jackson - until the next celebrity shocker.

Already this year, we've seen Britney married, Michael Jackson dancing at his child molestation arraignment and Steve Irwin frolicking with his newborn and a crocodile ... and it's only February.

"Who knows?" said Poleman. "It's up to their imagination."

AP writers David Bauder, Christy Lemire and Jonathan D. Salant contributed to this report.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040202/D80FD6MO0.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Mon, Feb 02, 2004

Local 8th-Graders React To Justin-Janet Stunt

If you're one of the adults offended by the Super Bowl stunt involving Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, you should hear what some area students are saying about it.

During the halftime performance Sunday, Timberlake reached across Jackson and ripped off a piece of her top, almost entirely exposing Jackson's bare breast.

"It was crazy, because it just came unexpected," Princeton eighth-grade student B.J. Willis told WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Tony Gnau Monday.

Some children said they weren't necessarily surprised or concerned about the lyrics, which includes the words, "Better have you naked by the end of this song." The students said they have other issues, Gnau reported.

"No. 1 -- she should have kept her shirt on," Willis' classmate, Bridget Smith, said. "No. 2 -- the dancing was OK, but they didn't have to be out of their clothes."

Added another eighth-grade student, Paul Cocco: "It was pretty surprising for him to do something that intense."

The students told Gnau that they didn't think it was an accident, as Timberlake claims. And overall, they weren't happy with the halftime show. Like their parents, the children see the Super Bowl as a family event, and don't think what happened with Jackson and Timberlake was appropriate, Gnau reported.

"I thought it was all good until the end," Smith said. "I thought the end was a little bit inappropriate, being that kids of all ages were watching it."

The children added that while they didn't like what they saw, none of them changed the channel.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid...86524&printer=1

[Shawn]

Thanks for the vid RBD.

Watching that, I can't imagine that the stunt was an accident. I think most women's natural instinct would have been to cover the boob. She, did not.

[Kooperman]

I love that combined headline. Have the Feds confiscated the breast for investigation?

[rainbowdemon]

I volunteer to examine that breast very carefully. The other one too.

:D :D

[DudeAsInCool]

An inside analysis of CBS by the NYTimes:

February 3, 2004

TV WATCH | SUPER BOWL

After Flash of Flesh, CBS Again Is in Denial

By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

ardrobe malfunction" was the term Justin Timberlake used to explain why he bared Janet Jackson's breast at the end of their Super Bowl duet. Like "erectile dysfunction," a term used in halftime advertisements for Cialis, it was a somewhat startling euphemism.

If Monday morning quarterbacks are any guide, few people thought it was by accident that Mr. Timberlake's hand snaked across Ms. Jackson's torso as he reached the lyric, "I'll have you naked by the end of this song," and tore off one bustier cup, releasing a breast partly obscured by a sunburst-shaped nipple brooch. The gesture seemed timed to more than the music: the very next commercial was a close-up of Ms. Jackson's cleavage in a gaudy promotion for next week's Grammy Awards on CBS. (Ms. Jackson denies that the nudity was deliberate, saying that Mr. Timberlake was supposed to rip away only the top layer and leave a bit of red lace behind.)

And nobody really has any reason to believe CBS when the network insists that it did not know the bodice ripping was in the works. That is not just because MTV produced the halftime show for CBS and both companies are owned by Viacom. One does not have to subscribe to conglomerate conspiracy theory to be suspicious. CBS has told so many howlers over the past 18 months that any claim to dignity — and righteous indignation — by this network is now open to snickering.

CBS insisted there was no quid pro quo when it sent Pfc. Jessica Lynch a letter suggesting that an exclusive interview with CBS News would be rewarded with other lucrative contracts within the Viacom empire.

CBS insisted that its decision to cancel the mini-series "The Reagans" had nothing to do with the right-wing lobbying campaign that threatened a boycott of advertisers' products.

And the network insisted that it did not sweeten a deal with Michael Jackson to secure a "60 Minutes" interview with him after his arrest last November as the network was preparing a Michael Jackson entertainment special.

Implausible deniability and the fungible walls between news and entertainment, and between art and commerce, exist at every major network. But like a high school student caught smoking pot by the principal, CBS can hardly wriggle free by arguing that everybody does it.

The beauty of the Janet Jackson to-do is that it could well be the one case in which CBS is telling the truth, and like the little network that cried wolf, nobody is listening. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powell, was watching, however. He called the incident a "classless, crass and deplorable stunt" and called for a "thorough and swift" F.C.C. investigation. The National Football League also took umbrage, huffily announcing it was unlikely to invite MTV to produce a halftime show anytime soon. Perhaps the league will turn to MTV's rival cable music station, VH1. (That should work. VH1 is also owned by Viacom.)

Even trussed as she was in a shiny "Matrix"/dominatrix outfit, Janet Jackson, 37, has never had much luck being taken seriously as a sex symbol, and it is unlikely that her Super Bowl surprise will be of much help there. But if her aim was to grab all the attention, as Madonna did when she kissed Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards, then she did herself proud. And if she wanted to distract attention from her older, more famous and now more infamous brother Michael, then she achieved even that for a moment.

Her sudden flare of pre-Grammy attention and publicity came at a slight cost. Perhaps the one moment of honesty in that coldly choreographed tableau was when the cup came off and out tumbled what looked like a normal middle-aged woman's breast instead of an idealized Playboy bunny implant.

The N.F.L. was apparently put off by much of the MTV halftime show, not just Ms. Jackson's uninvited breast. And one can understand the league's confusion. Does anyone who loves the CBS hit "Everybody Loves Raymond" enjoy watching the hip-hop singer Nelly repeatedly grab his crotch, as he did in the halftime show? (Viacom, like Gaul, is divided into at least three very different parts).

But if the N.F.L. was really so shocked and appalled, why didn't it flinch at the Cialis advertisement that promised men 36 hours of relief from impotence, then warned that if they should experience an erection for four hours straight, they should seek "immediate medical care"?

On television sincerity can be measured only by sacrifice. If the N.F.L. really found the halftime show so objectionable, perhaps it should reconsider giving Super Bowl rights to the highest bidder and instead select the network that promises to adhere to the N.F.L.'s self-image of wholesome good fun.

CBS could decide it cannot risk another such risqué assault on what it deliciously still refers to as its "broadcast standards" and recuse itself from carrying the Grammy Awards. A network's regret and remorse can be best judged by its willingness to lose ratings, and CBS so far has shown none.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/arts/tel...print&position=