Shades of Powell: NoDaddy.com

Fishbowl is not at all surprised to learn from MSNBC that “racy” commercials for internet domain registration outfit GoDaddy.com were pulled from the Super Bowl’s fourth quarter by Fox brass. With FCC chairman Michael Powell still hovering over anxious executives because he’s not out the door yet, the New Puritanism is flowering over at the Fair and Balanced network.

Apparently, it was (former) laddie bastion NFL itself which had requested the commercial – in which a bosomy model pokes fun at censorship – be pulled.

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