A baker’s dozen of Federal Communications Commission complaints related to Super Bowl XLII recently released under FOIA show viewers were mostly annoyed by what they didn’t see.
As well as venting frustration over spotty coverage, there were gripes over commercials being beamed in from Earth-2, where Tom Brady celebrated his sixth Super Bowl win …
and your standard-issue “think of the children” fare …
but the only complaints aimed at the game itself took issue with Justin Timberlake’s halftime performance - notably its exclusion of Janet Jackson and (unwilling) inclusion of Prince.
Not really sure what the federal government can do about Timberlake, but hey, at least their complaint got released to the public.
Read the full complaints embedded below, or on the request page:
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