Bullshit controversy

During Monday Night Football this week, ABC aired a promo for their show, Desperate Housewives. The clip involved one of the actresses wearing a towel while in a men's locker room. A football player enters the locker room and she drops her towel.

ABC had this to say: "The placement of last night's opening segment was inappropriate. We apologize."

The NFL added: "While ABC may have gained attention for one of its other shows, the NFL and its fans lost."

Don't act so "free from blame" NFL. You're part of this too. You knew what was going on before it happened. It's not like ABC does whatever it wants without checking with you first.

And you still aired it, didn't you, ABC? You knew what you were doing before you did it. You WANTED to do it. It was carefully planned out and calculated, right down to the next day's apology. You had that speech ready and waiting for the follow-up controversy.

It goes a little something like this:

ABC creates a sexy promo for a racy program. ABC airs the segment during Monday Night Football, a hugely popular past time in the history of the United States. Millions of people see it. Some of those people complain about it. ABC apologizes for it the next day, increasing awareness and visiblity for the publicity stunt, just in case there were a few people who DIDN'T watch football the night before, and now even MORE people learn about the show.

Genius, ABC. Allow me to applaude your brilliant marketing, and sucessful attempt at adding more viewers to an already popular show.

Janet flashes a tit and now everything involving tits is "cutting edge" becuase middle america can't handle a little realilty. They'll watch Survivor, Trading Spouses and The Simple Life believing that it isn't perfectly calculated and scripted, but freak out when something REALLY unscripted happens in REAL TIME. The providers of this so-called "Entertainment" have it all figured out, know exactly how their audience is going to react, and continue to rule the airwaves by pandering to stupidity.

Thank you, television, for confusing the hell out of society and allowing us to forget the difference between fiction and reality.

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