Media Matters recently noted that Fox News Channel has become a “treasure-trove” of sexually-suggestive footage, including “pole-dancing actresses and adult film stars, Playboy and Victoria’s Secret models, and other adult-oriented entertainers.”
Now, MSNBC is replicating Fox’s “practice of airing photographs and videos of scantily-clad women or blurred images of nude women — frequently with the skimpiest of news relevance.” These images appeared on television within seconds of each other this morning:
MSNBC, 10:54 am:
Fox News, 10:54 am, during a segment on a serial killer:
May we humbly suggest a few stories the media could examine to fill the news cycle.
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