ESPN.com - NFL/PLAYOFFS04 - Fox did not re-air racy ad at request of NFL: “McCarthy said that the NFL had several conversations with Fox in the weeks leading up to the game in order to ‘make sure that the overall presentation of Super Bowl Sunday would be suitable for a mass audience. … That’s why we questioned this particular content.’
The NFL was determined not to have a repeat of last year’s complaints after Jackson’s breast was exposed when singer Justin Timberlake ripped off a piece of her costume.
Warren Adelman, chief operating officer of GoDaddy.com, said the company was ‘very disappointed’ that the ad was pulled and received no advance warning from Fox. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company is still in discussions with Fox about what kind of restitution would be made, he said.
‘The irony is that a parody of censorship was itself censored,’ Adelman said.”
Is this what we’ve come to? Rampant self-censorship to avoid possibly offending anyone?
Man, that Bill of Rights sure was something. Wish we still had it…
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