Dec 16
Nudity on NBC? Not!
The news media reported recently that the FCC had requested tapes of NBC’s broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics. That fact is important, because the FCC requests tapes when it investigates complaints of indecency, and because it only investigates possible indecency when it receives a complaint to begin with. So, it is logical that someone had to have complained about indecency in NBC’s broadcast.
So let’s review the opening ceremonies.
There were male dancers dressed in gray body paint and gray bikini bottoms with prosthetics to simulate the nudity of Greek statues. The prosthetics could certainly be offensive to some.
The only problem, of course, is the time difference. When NBC broadcast the opening ceremonies in America, it had already had seven hours to edit out all of the potentially-offending fake genitalia. The American audience — presumably where the complaint originated — never saw it.
It is possible that someone read a description of the opening ceremony as performed or attended in person and assumed that the ceremony aired in all of its glory (pardon the expression).
But if you think that television is always looking for new lows to sink to and that standards are out of control, perhaps this single example is enough to convince you that there are those on the other side of the fight who have run somewhat amok as well!
When we’re resorting to complaining about nudity that doesn’t even exist, it’s no wonder that we’re in the middle of some kind of culture war.
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