Jackson's "Wardrobe Malfunction" Back In Legal Spotlight

AP Via Google:

A federal appeals court on Tuesday will consider whether a notorious "wardrobe malfunction" that bared singer Janet Jackson's breast during a televised 2004 Super Bowl halftime show was indecent, or merely a fleeting and accidental glitch that shouldn't be punished.

The case is the second recent test of the federal government's powers to regulate broadcast indecency. Last June, a federal appeals court in New York invalidated the government's policy on fleeting profanities uttered over the airwaves.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia will hear arguments about the Feb. 1, 2004 halftime show when 90 million Americans watched singer Justin Timberlake pull off part of Janet Jackson's bustier, briefly exposing one of her breasts. The episode was later explained as a problem with her costume.

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Comments

[Fentwin]

I'm just glad that after 3 years the FCC and the media are still keeping us abreast of this most pressing issue.

(somebody was eventually going to say it eh)

[bushdoescrack]

justin who??

[JayeSutter]

Her flunkies ran around Houston searching for just the right nipple jewelry for her "accident.­"

What really pisses me off is the FCC is more upset about a boob than a young man ripping a woman's clothes off her. That was violence, pure and simple and a huge statement about the acceptability of violence against women.

More ink on her boob than on violence against women.

[Ginzaman]

These stations get fined $250,000 for showing a breast about 20 feet away for about ten seconds. Meanwhile Nicolette Sheridan can do a rear nude scene on Monday Night Football in (GASP) prime time. And ABC gets no fine at all.

What about the radio stations with call letters like KLSD, KUME and others? Will THESE stations get fined for "indecency" as well?

[Nommo]

Didja hear about the station somewhere in Cali that got assigned the call letters KUNT? I kid you not.

[helonias]

I guess a lot depends if they were breast fed or not.

The nippleocity factor.

[abbiehoffmansghost]

Wardrobe malfunction? I thought that it was a great improvement.

[LDW]

It's simply amazing. At the moment television viewers saw part of Jackson's breast occupying less than 5% of the TV screen, probably a dozen graphic fight scenes, murders & rapes were playing on other channels, none of which was considered 'obscene'. The FCC has to protect poor little Americans from the sight of a female breast, but is perfectly willing to show a graphic portrayal of that same female being beaten, mutilated and raped, so long as she doesn't expose a breast!!!

[ming099]

....the FCC is run by a bunch of hypocritical,blue haired old ladies....­.they reek of sour milk and Sachet....­dont touch your pee pee!!!!...­.or your boobies!!!or your muffy...!!­!.....dont even think about it!!!!....­it doesnt exist....d­ont think bad thoughts..­..BIG BROTHER is among us....

[TheHandyman]

Sorry, you must mean hypocritical blue-hair old men, dyed in the wool Republican in the closet gays who deep down hate all women because they can wear flashier clothes!

[ming099]

....I'll buy into that too.....

[NYC07]

39 states in this country allow women to breast feed in public, so what is the big deal about showing a breast on T.V.? This country really has it priorities screwed up. Violence on T.V. "Two thumbs up" a nipple exposed for a second " Call out the Army !! the Navy !!! someone get a cop, the country can's survive with such filth !!! Think of the children !!!The obsession with sex and body parts in this country is pervers.

[TheHandyman]

Well, that's because no self respecting religiously devoted American has any sexual body parts. If they did there would be all kinds of advertising for revealing and sexy clothes from Victoria's Secrets. There would be advertising for chemical aids to help with sexual dysfunction. There would be advertising using beautiful women to sell things like cars, trucks, boats, clothes, food, soap, perfume, well, everything! And since there is nothing like that on TV in the US they must not be concerned about sex or sex organs....­.no, really....­.what's that?.....­it fills the airways day and night?....­go on....well­, never mind, they are just a bunch of hypocritical perverts then!

[RandyRanson]

When she's no longer with us, Janet Jackson, should donate her tit to the Smithsonian Ins(tit)ute.

After all, it's the All American thing to do.

[teachpeace]

If I'm not mistaken, Prince can get away with a pantomime "cock-stroking" of
his guitar shadow in the same venue and no one bats an eye..... Super Bowl '07.

[PeterTheChanter]

just for the record, i'm from that sophisticated and cosmopolitan hotbed of sex: canada

[Destin]

How come the networks weren't fined when Lucy "Xena" Lawless's top slid down and exposed BOTH her nipples as she sang the national anthem prior to the hockey all-star game??

[Nommo]

Shit, I missed that? All for not being interested at all in hockey?

[Destin]

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2406291

You be the judge, accident or wardrobe malfunction? And the announcer does mention Disney did the planning for the performance. ;)

[bushdoescrack]

How come the networks weren't fined when Lucy "Xena" Lawless's top slid down and exposed BOTH her nipples as she sang the national anthem prior to the hockey all-star


oh, the humanity!

[Warmglobe]

And above all else..it isn't even one worth looking at is it?

[Nommo]

Guess not.

[Nommo]

There are enough made up to look dead bodies one can view on enough crime shows on tv to seriously give one pause. We are voyeurs of the dead and how screwed up is that?
We should see a tit daily until, you know, it just ain't no big thing.
Tituba, first witch of America.