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The New York Times Presents S01 E10 Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson

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"Hot off the press, straight to your screen."

In 2004, a culture war was brewing when the Super Bowl halftime show audience saw a white man expose a Black woman's breast for 9/16ths of a second. A national furor ensued. The woman was Janet Jackson, and her career was never the same.