Im dating myself but on the show NYPD Blue they showed the top part of Dennis Franz ass. In hingsight seems kinda mild but what was the huge uproar about back then?

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m more interested in how you managed to pull off dating yourself :D

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah it was soooooo shocking. It got a lot of press and I always kinda chuckled about it.

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We didn’t see asses on TV. We still don’t see them on broadcast. It’s more common on cable.

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• Teh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Even today, on broadcast TV you won’t see swearing or nudity because of prudish views. Cable is a little more lax, and “extra-cable” or streaming like HBO or Cinemax were even more lax.

  The more you had to seek it out the less likely anyone was going to clutch their pearls over something.

  Also see: Janet Jackson and Timberlake “wardrobe malfunction”.

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• K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fast forward 35 years and we’ve seen Uncle Baby Billy’s full ass and cock

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  broadcast tv was/is much more regulated than cable due to its nature of utilizing the public airspace

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’ve been trying to kill that. They sold off a bunch of public frequencies relatively recently.

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      yep. the capitalists are in full swing now that fascism reigns. everything is for sale, even history

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