Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth

'We can live in peace'...John Lennon (photo: Dafna Tal)

Mahzor

Mahzor

New York Public Library

Churches

Sarajevo Haggadah

Mah Nishtanah

Sarajevo haggadah

Antaea Darom

Israeli women's art

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Torah as music

Ben Heine

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ceramic bowl

Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit (photo: Ilan Amihai)

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Punch and Judy/Pinchas and Jamila

Avi Katz

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David Grossman

Ben Heine

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Eldrige Street shul

Lower East Side

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Dove

Ben Heine

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Two birds

Hoda Jamal

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Israeli and Palestinian boys

from documentary, Promises

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Cat in the Hat

Yiddish version

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Daylight through the Wall

Banksy: graffiti art on Separation Wall

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Maurice Sendak's Brundibar set

New Victory Theater (photo: Nan Melville/NYT)

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Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Palestinian-Israeli musical ensemble (photo: Kerstin Joensson/AP)

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Great Day on Eldrige Street

N.Y.'s klezmer greats celebrate shul rededication (photo: Leo Sorel)

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Janet Jackson’s Boob: How Big Media Can Keep Tittilating Viewers, Avoid the FCC’s Wrath, and Make Tons New Ad Money

Feb 26th, 2005 by Richard Silverstein | 0

Janet Jackson boob cartoonJanet Jackson & Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl: what might’ve been… (credit: Striporama.com)

Thanks to Elena Steier, a wonderful online cartoonist I discovered a few weeks ago, I’d like to present a modest proposal to the TV networks that will shield them from massive FCC indecency fines, continue titillating viewers just as Jackson did during last year’s Super Bowl, and draw huge revenues from sponsors. In this age of TiVO, the networks are crying in their beer about the audience turning off commercials and the necessity of finding new forms of advertising. Well, I’ve come up (or I should say Elena’s come up with) a new form of TV advertising: boob endorsement. That’s right. Show Janis’ boob and get all the male viewers slobbering in their juices but shield it with the corporate logo of your choice: “Janet’s boob brought to you by Cialis.” Think of all the body parts you can’t now expose, but which would be open to view with a choice logo covering up the naughty parts? If I were a network advertising exec my mouth would be drooling right about now.

Oh and instead of those insipid pop lyrics Janet and Justin were lip-syncing, how about Elena’s brilliant suggestion: “Justin Timberlake should have sung the words, ‘Anyone experiencing an erection lasting over four hours should see a doctor.’”

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