Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticEarlier this year, The New York Times’ documentary unit had its greatest achievement yet in clarity and impact. “Framing Britney Spears,” the Times’ doc on the pop singer’s figurative captivity within her image and her literal one within her family and legal conservatorship, brought a complex and granular awareness of the issues at play in the story to a mass audience.
They also brought mass attention to a case that had been playing out in the background of popular culture for more than a decade.Now the Times sets out to do a similar thing for Janet Jackson, whose career suffered a painful blow after her breast was exposed on-camera at the Super Bowl in 2004.
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