Tag Archives: Morality in Media
Groupon Boycott Grows, Groupon Removes Porn Ads
Morality In Media’s now three week-old boycott of Groupon, the online coupon company, is growing. Seven organizations with substantial membership have joined the boycott in the last week. More than 15,000 of Morality In Media’s own supporters have now contacted Groupon to cancel their memberships.
Groupon’s support of porn producers Kink and Playboy caused MIM to initiate the boycott. “Why Groupon would find Kink to be an attractive business associate is puzzling,” said MIM’s executive director Dawn Hawkins, “because Kink brags that its productions include, ‘Girls … pulled in and out of cages, their tongues clamped, their bodies pinned, …
Morality in Media Says 3rd Circuit Court Ruling Regarding 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show With Jackson and Timberlake is Unfortunate
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (3rd Circuit) vacated a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Order which found that CBS violated the broadcast indecency law in its airing of the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show, a move that Morality in Media (MIM) calls unfortunate.
“The 3rd Circuit might be on solid ground had the halftime show breast-baring incident involving Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson been a complete accident in an otherwise unobjectionable show. But as the FCC Order shows, the 2004 Halftime Show was sexually charged from beginning to end, and the exposure of Ms. Jackson’s …
