At 10:03 PM 11/18/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: >JDG wrote: > >> Anyhow, just about every paragraph in this piece was off-target, but the >> above are probably the best examples. > >So it's just OK for the _sponsors_ of football to plug sex and >intoxicating drugs to this oh-so-easily offended crowd because they >understand that someone needs to pay.
Huh? What part of the following did you not understand? -No one is complaining about ABC promoting its programming in the MNF intro.... they are complaining about ABC doing so in a way that violates a hitherto pretty-well established community standard of decency. It seems like that the above pretty well answers your question. ABC crossed a hitherto uncrossed line, and that is what has caused the outrage. Let me be clear that I was outraged by the Super Bowl Halftime Show long before Janet Jackson ever appeared - everything from Kid Rock blatantly violating the US Flag Code to a dance performance that was extremely raunchy. In fact, I was so disgusted that I was in the restroom when the famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred. With that being said, I think that discussion of the MNF promo are focusing a little too much emphasis on the fact that Ms. Sheriden was naked in the scene, albeit this is the indisputable fact of the incident, and is what crossed the unwritten line of community decency. I think that it is important, however, to also note that everyone who watched ABC's promo was receiving a message from ABC (and a very popular NFL player in uniform) that was directly glorifying casual, extramarital sex. There is a difference between having women dressed sexily indirectly selling a product on one hand, and having a woman drop her clothes and jump another man in a direct suggestion of sex. I think that there are a lot of people who don't want that message broadcast into their homes as part of Monday Night Football., and I don't think that there is anything particular wrong, hypocritcial, or un-American about not wanting that message broadcast into their homes as part of Monday Night Football. >Right. > >I wonder if we would even be having this discussion if it had been Payton >Manning instead of T.O.? Is there any doubt? JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
