Media Guy's Pop Pick: Emmy in a Box; Our columnist's current media obsession.(MediaWorks)(Brief article)

Advertising Age, September, 2007

Byline: s.d.

Talk about brilliant timing: Just as CBS defends itself (finally!) in federal court against an FCC fine for a certain 2004 "wardrobe malfunction,'' Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake are awarded a Creative Arts Emmy for their December 2006 "Saturday Night Live'' digital short, "A Special Christmas Box.'' That video, of course, became one of the all-time great (and funniest) viral sensations, even though, when it first aired on NBC, the key word in the chorus-''my d**k in a box''-was bleeped. Yep, this is where we've arrived in American culture: Years of debate over whether Janet Jackson's nipple flash is a $550,000 offense and a TV industry that honors a song about, well, Dick Cheney minus the Cheney. Censorious FCC Chairman Kevin "Church Lady''...

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