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I think that would be a fair distinction, and perhaps something from which the FCC could proceed.... Promotion or prostitution bad, education or informational ok? Would a PSA about breast self-exams run during Springer be effective? yep... But, I think for so many people it was just the fact that it was a naked boob on network TV. The outrage! The indignation!
I remember the first Platex Cross-Your-Heart bra commercial that featured a live model. My mother was mortified, and called the station immediately, after shooing me away from the 'tube.
Now, my take on the news clip was perhaps a bit paranoid, but I got a bad vibe from the experience. It was as though it was ok for this candid shot to include this woman whose breast was inadvertantly exposed. As if she's less worthy of dilligence in preserving her modesty through the editing process. Conditioned by years of national geographic naked bushmen, it's become ok to perpetuate the 1/2 naked natives steriotype in reference even to city-dwelling single mothers afflicted with AIDS in africa. That woman, the horrors of whose plight I cannot fathom, was certainly deserving of the respect given to women anywhere else in the world. You can be sure that no white woman's breast would have been shown during a story profiling AIDS patients in Europe.
It takes active, considered measures to eliminate this sort of thing, and the news should at least make an effort.
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