Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday February 6 2004 Q Nation fiws® lbir®adlos MIDI ooiidirlleiirfl ’ NEW YORK (AP) — The one- second flash of Janet Jackson's breast at the Super Bowl could end ' up putting the brakes on years of in the standards plunging entertainment industry “This particular event might be for themoment the straw that broke the camel's back on the patience of the audience” said talk show host Carson Daly a veteran presence on MTV which produced the offending halftime show “Tolerance of this sort of sexual imagery may have : reached its peak” Unlike other milestones of cency — rock star Bono using the f-word on the 2003 Golden Globes or down-and-dir- Madonna and Britney Spears g on MTV— Jackson chose to reveal herself before the largest TV audience of the year And she did it precisely when fedii eral authorities are mulling a on broadcast indecency The Jackson case could have a “galvanizing effect” on the move to toughen standards said FCC Commissioner Michael Copps who has complained his commission has been toothless ini responding to com- plaints At the very least he said it punc- tures the argument of people who say that those who are bothered by things on TV just shouldn’t watch “How do you turn off the Super Bowl?” Copps asked “There is going to be a national conversation on this” said Brent Bozell president of the Parents Television Council which has long complained about sex and violence on the tube “I think what this has done is sensitized die public" The fallout continued Thursday: CBS already facing an FCC probe for the halftime show said it would broadcast Sunday’s Grammy Awards with a delay to allow time to edit out any offensive images It remained unclear whether Jackson scheduled to be on the show would appear tongue-kissin- ty crack-dow- In brief five-minu- te A banker from Knoxville Tenn filed a class action lawsuit against Jackson dance partner Justin CBS halftime show producers MTV and the networks’ parent company Viacom Terri Carlin said the “sexually explicit conduct” by the performers caused millions of people to “suffer outrage anger embarrassment and serious injury” The NFL cut a halftime production number by one of Timberiake’s ’N Sync bandmates JC Chasez planned for Sunday’s Pro Bowl in Honolulu because Chasez’s song contained the words “horny” and “naughty” He’ll be replaced by hula Tim-berlak- dancers and local singers AOL spokesman Jim Whitney declined to comment on reports that the company would seek a refund of the $75 million it paid to sponsor the halftime show Shock and titillation in popular culture is nothing new From Elvis Presley’s scandalously swiveling hips to Ozzy Osbourne’s on his MTV show perbleep-fe-st formers have banked on outrageousness to excite and incite an audience These days two words you never would have heard on TV or the radio 10 years ago — which rhyme with itch and pass — are everyday ie analysis defended Pre-w- ar Pentagon scraps Internet for this year voting system — Internet WASHINGTON (AP) — Intelligence analysts never told President Bush before the inva-sio- n of Iraq that Saddam HusWASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon won’t use an sein's rule posed an imminent ' voting system for overseas US citizens this fall because of threat CIA Director George concerns about its security an official said Thursday Tenet said Thursday in a heated The official who requested anonymity said Deputy Defense defense of agency findings cen- Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made the decision to scrap the system' tral to the decision to go to war because Pentagon officials were not certain they could “assure The urgency of the Iraqi the legitimacy of votes that would be cast" threat was Bush’s main arguComputer security experts who last month reviewed die ment for the war But the presi-de- nt Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment or said Thursday he still SERVE had urged the Pentagon to scrap the system saying it would have invaded Iraq if was too vulnerable The experts said the system could be pene- he’d known no weapons stock- : traled by hackers who could change votes or gather information piles existed — adding a new about users element to foe much-debat' “Internet voting presents far too many opportunities for hack- -' question of whether the United ers or even terrorists to interfere with fair and accurate votingStates went to war based on potentially in ways impossible to detect" the experts said in a faulty assumptions statement Jan 2 1 “Such tampering could alter election results Tenet addressing such quesparticularly in close contests” tions for the first time after weeks of silence acknowl- in edged that analysts believed before the war that Saddam had chemical and biological ( AP) — A deadly storms dumped up to 10 indies of snow on weapons although none have been found He said he believes parts of the Midwest and Arkansas closing hundreds of schools some of what US intelligence and offices sending a plane sliding off a taxiway and giving from off the a predicted about Iraq will turn day greyhounds out to have been right — and races Thursday some wrong — as is often the ' Farther south heavy rain and in such matters: case and streets lightning swamped He made clear that analysts knocked out power in Missisdiffered among themselves all sippi with Gov Haley Barbour along on important aspects of declaring a state of emergency Saddam’s chemical biological in the hardest-h- it areas' and nuclear programs and Kansas in eastern Highways ' spelled out fooee disputes in an werf packed with snow and ice October 2002 intelligence estifor the morning oommute and mate given to the White House aboijt75 accidents and slide-- ' offs were reported in the Kansas “They never said there was ah imminent foreat " Tenet said condialone before area City in a speech at Georgetown Unilions improved with warmer afternoon temperatures versity “Rather they painted ' ' an objective assessment for our “A lot of people think policy-make- rs of a brutal dictabecause they have four-whe- el tor who wascontinuing his V drive they can go faster” said " efforts to deceive and build Sgt John Hot of the Missouri State Highway Patrol “Unfor- ' four-whe- el whien that find to time that comes it programs might constantly lunately stop they ' drive doesn't help you stop” surprise us and threaten our ' The snow was blamed for at least five fatal crashes including interests”Tenet's remarks hit back at a head-o- n collision Thursday inBany County Mo that killed a his former special adviser on ' woman Four others died Wednesday in Nebraska which was seeing its third winter storm since Jan 24 Iraqi weapons David Kay who n ' said last month “we were shake-u-p of defense postpones Bjake trial LOS ANGELES (AP)— The Robert Blake murder case was thrown into disarray Thursday when the judge relieved foe actor’s defense attorney because of “irreconcilable dif-ferences” with his client ' The action forced an indefinite postponement of Blake’s trial which had been sched- uled to enter the final phase of ' jury selection Feb 17 : ed Snow closes schools Midwest rain swamps streets in Mississippi ' ' - ' ' - : - : “I’m sorry” Superior Court Judge Darlene Schempp said after stunning the courtroom with her announcement “I just did not have a choice in the matter” Schempp set a hearing fix Feb 23 by which time she said she hoped Blake would find a replacement for Thomas Mesereau Jr Schempp spent nearly an AP photo hour in her chambers with CIA Director George Tenet speaks at Georgetown University in Blake and Mesereau before Washington on Thursday In Ns first public defense of prewar intellannouncing her decision As igence Tenet said US analysts never claimed before foe war that they left court neither Blake iraq poaoa an imminsfn mrsaL nor Mesereau would discuss almost all wrong” about Iraq's America nature of the dispute that did the the right today ended their relationship after weapons of mass destruction thing in Iraq” Bush said The comments also Seemed Tenet in his some l4 months inoculate defense the to “I’m very very sorry that never said in detail GA designed from becoming a scapegoat inMr Mesereau left” Blake said how theBush administration foe fight over whether foe war outside court “I am deeply citing US intelligence might have painted an inaccurate picwas justified deeply grateful to him for savSpeaking in Charleston SC ' ture of Iraq’s weapons arsenal ing my life” Bush acknowledged that the He insisted that the intelligence It was Mesereau who won ' Blake’s release on $15 mil-liweapons have not been found analysts had not tailored their bail after many months in although investigators have disfindings for any political ' : te - on covered evidence of possible programs He said the war was ' still justified “Knowing what I knew then and Imowing what I know ' jail BrakM1w4JfANMnaloia QSSwvkxaTrananiiMloiw Cooling t : 1' Minors required to be present when acquiring US 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