When it comes to disastrous publicity stunts a few stand out in my mind. The most recent one I can think of was Balloon Boy! This is the boy who supposedly floated away in a homemade air craft/balloon made by his father. The stunt this family conducted clearly went very very wrong. This was just was just one big PR disaster that the whole world knew about that was this family's quest for their 15 minutes of fame! All this family has to look foward to now is prison time and serious fines.
Another stunt gone wrong I will always remember was Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's performance during Superbowl XXXVIII. Janet's right breast was revealed while singing on stage. MTV had claimed they had no prior knowledge of the stunt and called it unplanned, unrehearsed, and completely unintentional. CBS was fined $550,000 by the FCC. To this day I wonder if it really was a "wardrobe malfunction?"
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