We’ve noticed something of a pattern developing on Fox recently. As part of several recent segments, Fox has aired a series of photographs and videos of scantily-clad women, and blurred images of nude women. We reviewed Fox News from December 5 through December 15 found at least eight different segments featuring photographs or video footage of nude or nearly nude women, as well as discussions on news programs of “hot” videos, and an item on provocative attire in the workplace. One program, Your World with Neil Cavuto, a weekday business program that airs at 4 p.m. EST, featured six of the eight segments. While host Neil Cavuto offered little in the way of explicit justification for the use of the material, the segments listed below were all cast as business stories.
Earlier this year, we noted that Fox News gave scant coverage to the funeral of Rosa Parks in favor of extended discussion, with accompanying visuals, of the top-five ranked celebrities from In Touch Weekly magazine’s Best Cleavage in Hollywood poll, including speculation whether each was real.
Here’s a screenshot from a recent Cavuto segment:
A business show or a “big” show?
(Cross-posted from Daily Kos)
Here are two of the 20 comments from this cross-post on Daily Kos:
I’d say business as usual.
They need to keep their ratings high and they don’t care how they achieve that goal.
They were bringing us stories about improvements in Iraq, but when the story about brining electricity to the Iraqis turned out to be shocks to torture victims’ butts before Iraqi residents received electricity in their houses, FOX changed the message.
And more…
and liberals are going to have to get over their Puritanism if they want people to tune into them.
I still find it hard to believe there was so much bandwidth wasted here over a video pie fight when Tom Cruise as St. Sebastian (with its homoerotic implications) was not discussed. Why are nearly naked women somehow politically incorrect while nearly naked men are not? If men can go topless shouldn’t women have the same rights?
There are enough hypocrites here on D-Kos without tuning on Faux News to find more.
What say the good folks here at Booman?
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