COVER STORY: Sins of the Flesh ; Six Months after Janet Jackson Bared Her Breast for 1.7 Seconds on Live TV, Draconian Censorship and Huge Fines Have Changed the Face of American Broadcasting - and Polarised the Country. but the Entertainment Industry Is Fighting Back

Gumbel, Andrew, The Independent (London, England)

As obscenity goes, a flash of female breast is hardly worth bothering with. Magazines from Vogue to Heat show them all the time. Barely veiled bosoms are on view on young women in cities the world over.

But this is the story of one exposed nipple that shook the world. It has been impossible to ponder the issue of public morality in America these past few months without wondering whether we aren't living in weird parallel universes. In the first, 2004 has been the year in which the United States was caught torturing prisoners in Iraq, was accused of lying about weapons of mass destruction, and was deemed to be violating the US constitution and international law by …

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Publication information: Article title: COVER STORY: Sins of the Flesh ; Six Months after Janet Jackson Bared Her Breast for 1.7 Seconds on Live TV, Draconian Censorship and Huge Fines Have Changed the Face of American Broadcasting - and Polarised the Country. but the Entertainment Industry Is Fighting Back. Contributors: Gumbel, Andrew - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: August 19, 2004. Page number: 2,3. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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