For those of you who haven't heard, let me tell what this is about
first. During the superbowl last night, Justin Timberlake was doing a
duet with Janet Jackson. At the end, he came up behind her, reached
across, and ripped her shirt down, exposing her breast. She was very
visibly and understandabley upset and embarrassed by it.
Well, there was a report about it in our local news, which upset me on
so many levels. First of all, they showed the clip again (TWICE!), which
was not needed to tell the story, and just brought more embarrassment to
Ms. Jackson. So they told the story (Adding Timberlake's comment that he
appologizes for the "wardrobe malfunction"), then shot to the newsdesk.
The male reporter (I'm pretty sure his name is Chad Mahoney) said two
things that really made me mad.
1)"First Latoya, then Micheal, now Janet."
-----excuse me, since when is this remotely similar to Micheal? Micheal
is up on sexual abuse charges, Janet is the victim of a very public
assault.
2)"Oh, well, I guess one man's malfunction is another man's pleasure."
-----I don't think I even need to comment on that one.
I would love it if we could launch a campaign against this station.
Their website can be found at http://www.wics.com
The e-mail is news@... or comments@...
Thanks,
Kristen