After the infamous Janet Jackson incident there was widely publicized talk about time delays in live broadcasting. Time delay was implemented in the Grammy awards ceremony broadcast this year. Time delay in writing this piece was merely a self imposed pathetic attempt to brush off the matter quietly and think no more. Then one fine Friday morning at exactly 07:38 AM the author came across this article: How the Janet Jackson "Nipplegate" Scandal Illustrates the Dangers of Chilling Free Speech, By Julie Hilden

One might wonder how is it that no one picked up on the fact that there was an imposed need to create time delays in live broadcasting. Of course this wasn't the first instance either. "In prior years, the show aired with a five-second tape delay, enabling network censors to delete offensive language but leaving them helpless against surprise images such as nudity or hand gestures".[1] The star adorned nipple was the last thing on some important decision makers minds. For crying out loud there's so much worse on daily public media! Nipplegate was just a stylishly funny joke in comparison with some of the things one can experience from some very popular shows on television and radio. A phenomenological interpretation and experience through close observance of today's media may lead one to conclude that nothing really is arbitrary. Certainly that does not mean that everything is planned either just that anything can serve a purpose - an important one albeit heavily veiled by the superfluity and attention seeking paraphernalia of its being. It is therefore noteworthy how from such a silly public incident something so important as the delay/ relay issue erupted; how passively accepting and even eager to implement were the media to the idea of self censorship- even in the form of a few second delay of their broadcasting. Perhaps it was a plan put to place when slightly off individuals decided to rampage their messages through Oscar ceremonies and the like; especially when such messages were so incorrectly politically oriented. We can't have that! Emotional outbursts should only be allowed in the controlled environment of programs such as CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Chris Matthews shows - um, newscasts - just to name a few. Scenes from the action movie "Running Man" come to mind and whereas television perhaps has not quite reached those kinds of standards in broadcasting as those depicted in the film we are already recipients and consumers of such portrayed ideologies.

It seems truly amazing that the whole notion of live broadcasting: the representation of reality itself gets a whole new facelift and no one finds themselves compelled to write or talk about it! At the end of the day one has to conclude that all the first amendment discussions is small talk if something like this is passed by so casually. Of course one has to admit that these are not the views of the most avid and informed reader out there. Yet, if the average citizen has not heard anything about this issue what would others less politically inclined individuals think of this matter? Fine print you might say, lost in ones conspired imagination.