The Bush Administration's run-amok censors at the FCC got their comeuppance this morning when a three-judge federal appeals court in Philadelphia tossed out a $550,000 fine levied against CBS for that infamous "wardrobe malfunction" during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that resulted in a glimpse of Janet Jackson's breast that lasted nowhere near as long as it's taken you read this indefensibly long sentence.
"Like any agency, the FCC may change its policies without judicial second-guessing," the court said. "But it cannot change a well-established course of action without supplying notice of and a reasoned explanation for its policy departure."
The court could have said: "Are you kidding us? The indecency, if you want to call it that, lasted nine-sixteenths of one second. Now go find a better way to use our tax dollars."
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9/16?
How can something on TV last for 9/16 of a second when NTSC TV is 30 frames/second?
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That is true. I watched the game on TV and failed to see anything. In fact it wasn't until later that we found out that a nipple had actually been briefly exposed. The real culprit was the cameras which capture at a much higher rate than the TV display. If you saw nipple it was most likely in person or after the fact from all the slow motion replays on YouTube.