Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy Essays

  • George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words: Morality as Defined by the Government

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    You Can Never Say on Television” monologue performed, and written by George Carlin. I will also discuss some of Lenny Bruce’s ideology, and the legal, and public persecution both groundbreaking, 1st-amendment-advocate comedians faced. I am going to show how through these men’s actions we now have more freedoms, and their influence of the definition of profane behavior in mainstream media, and also that the idea of profanity is a farce that should be buried next to slavery, war, and marriage being

  • Sex & Violence in the Media

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    television sets with their family and friends to watch the biggest sports event of the year: Super Bowl XXXVIII. Inside the Reliant Stadium of Houston, Texas, the New England Patriots beat the Carolina Panthers 32-29 in one of the closest games in recent history; but this year it wasn’t the football game or even the commercials that had people talking. It was an incident that occurred during the halftime show that involved pop singers Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake that ended in millions of Americans

  • Censorship in Television and Radio

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    incident in Super Bowl 38 when looking at television, and for radio, focused on the FCC and disc jockeys like Howard Stern. Here are the television articles as done by three of our group members. If there is a single most important event that happened in television that caused major ramifications, it would be the Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” during the halftime show at Super Bowl 38. In this incident Janet Jackson exposed her right breast. Worst of all the Super Bowl was broadcast

  • My Opinion on Media Censorship

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    article also discusses how certain graphics such as nude scenes should not be broadcast on television or any other forms of media. The Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake super bowl performance was used as example. In this case Justin Timberlake ripped off Janet’s top and her right breast was shown on television during the super bowl in 2004. This caused a big up roar because a lot of parents complained that the exposing of her body was too much to be seen on family oriented support such as football

  • FCC Rules Are Effective Against Pornographic Programming

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    What makes sex so scandalous? Why is the American culture so ‘hush, hush’ about the friction in the sheets while the rest of the world exploits it? Regardless of what the world does, in general, this country desires to protect the youth from sex in television and radio. Some Americans feel furious when seeing or hearing sexual material and send complaints to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). While others either support the questionable material or feel indifferent towards it. The