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Hubby B: Live events are not broadcast on delay. The news isn't and often when they're in the field things happen. One of the more famous lines was after Andrew when a photographer kept trying to hand a reporter a microphone because they were on the air. She later claimed she said something about apparatus instead of "stick it up your a.." What about presidential press conferences in which the current office holder regularly uses words not allowed on television? If a world series game was on a 10 second delay, the big home run would get scooped by someone on twitter. You say delay is done all the time, but it isn't done all the time on tv. It is a standard practice on talk radio.
Everyone acts like this is something new but there have been flashers at many football games and they've been on tv. They were just removed from the stadium but the network and NFL did not choose to follow it up by giving them more publicity and fame. Had MLB not banned and given these girls publicity they wouldn't have gotten nearly the time or promotion out of it.
The only regular television I know on tape delay is A&E with Live PD and Live Rescue. They anticipate a barrage of language from those arrested but that's not their primary reason. They have some intense and traumatic action including rollovers and deaths even and they do want to delay those. Don't want someone's relatives seeing a mutilated body before the police have even notified them.
It's simple, the broadcasting network broke no rules. MLB broke no rules. The two girls broke game attendance rules but broke no laws.
I do think it's likely now that they've been rewarded with so much publicity that they will strike again at future sporting events.
I would add this and that is that there's been no outrage over this. It's been nothing like Nipplegate. First, not the number of viewers. Second, a few years have passed. Third, it wasn't part of a halftime show people had allowed their kids to stay up late to see. On the whole, it's just not a big deal. Not like there are people who haven't seen breasts before. Just a little sidelight. And a great trivia question for years to come will be "Who was the pitcher when the girls flashed from behind home plate in the World Series?" Answer: Gerrit Cole.
I wonder if at some point if the motivation to profit from the breaking of the rules, chances the authorities response. It's ok for a woman to sleep around, until she starts profiting from it.
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