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Monday, February 2, 2004 at 11:00 AM EST
Super Bowl Culture

During Super Bowl’s halftime show last night, singer Justin Timberlake tore off a piece of Janet Jackson’s leather gladiator costume, revealing her bare right breast to millions of television viewers. But that incident wasn’t the only part of yesterday’s broadcast that is being called “classless” in some circles. There was Nelly’s crotch-grabbing, Kid Rock wearing the American flag as a poncho, and ads featuring a groin-biting dog, swearing kids, and a flatulent horse.

Margery Eagen, columnist at the Boston Herald, and Carolyn Marvin, Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, discuss where the bar was set in yesterday’s Super Bowl ads and entertainment.

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