BOO... HISS... WE WANT LITIGATION!
Janet Jackson Super Bowl Lawsuit Dropped
February 10, 2004
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MND Newswire
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Tennessee plaintiff Terri Carlin has filed a motion to dismiss her class action lawsuit against Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Viacom, MTV, and CBS nearly a week after filing it to protest Jackson's "shocking moment" of nudity during the Super Bowl Halftime show.
Carlin, a bank employee from Knoxville, filed her suit on February 4, just days after the incident, charging that the defendants had caused her and
"all Americans who watched the Super Bowl...to suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury." Her suit sought damages not to exceed "the gross annual revenues of each defendant for the last three years" - a sum surely in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Both Jackson and Timberlake have apologized for the incident, calling it an unintentional "wardrobe malfunction." MTV and CBS have denied any foreknowledge of the event.
MTV announced Monday that it had moved some of its most provactive videos into late-night rotation.
Any ideas what
provactive means?
Pro-actively provocative? Prophylactically reactive?
By the way, there was a nice piece about this in
The Economist. Not sure if it is subscription only, but there's a delicious sense of irony in there that nearly but not quite redeems my faith in the paper...
http://www.economist.com/printedition/d ... ID=2405081
It was even more effective in the print edition, since the picture was placed immediately below the final sentence for added bite.
"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available" (Benford's Law of Controversy)