![]() It’s called exploitation, not experimentation. I bet good money no matter what consultant advised such a stunt, Barbara Walters would refuse to offer a closer view of her naked self on "The View." And though Diane Sawyer has wiggled into a body glove to participate in Cirque due Soleil, I am absolutely certain she wouldn’t even remove her wig on camera. Did a media consultant come to the station and tell them to try this?" The former NBC vice president added, "Why the news director would permit this is beyond me. "I think it was a silly thing to do and I’m curious to know how it came about," said Joe Angotti, chair of the broadcast department at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. No matter how many countries and stations board the nudity news bus, trading on a woman’s dignity should never be the norm. It’s a new take on an old fable, except now it is the anchor who has no clothes. It all serves to remind us that as women in journalism have not come as far on the equality train as we all hoped. (CNN executives protested and the ad was yanked, but still it was out there long enough to get the message across.) In the ad, CNN called Zahn a "a little bit sexy" and showed Zahn’s profile and lips along with the words "provocative" and "sexy" just as the music stops for what sounds like a zipper. hotel rooms.Īnd while CNN’s ad a couple of years ago promoting newscaster Paula Zahn didn’t involve nudity, it was a nakedly sexist stunt. #News anchor nude tv#There are the Czech topless weather girls and a stripping Svetlana Pesotskaya on Moscow’s M1 TV reporting stories for the "Naked Truth." There’s also the Naked News on Live TV! carrying stripper news and naked weathergirls all over Canada, European mobile phones and in U.S. Naked women and news it’s not such a novel twist. And the station received no slap on the wrist from the FCC since it was aired an hour after curfew prohibiting indecent material broadcast from 6-10 p.m. Reed, on the stations’ website, reports that more than 700,000 viewers watched her "Body of Art" report and more than 1 million people visited the website for what she calls "a television news first." The Associated Press reported that the news broadcast received a 17.1 share of the market, another record. The story was also aimed, he said, at raising ratings during the November sweeps.Īnd it reportedly did just that. The goal of the story, according to reports quoting news director Steve Doerr, was to cover the story of Spencer Tunick’s photographs in a new way. Both Reed and Banks are exceptionally attractive black women, though their job descriptions of underwear model and news anchor should be decidedly different. More than 130 news Web sites run by newspapers and other news outlets had the titillating story on their Web sites last week, at least one with a pop-up ad for Victoria’s Secret showing bra-baring Super Model Tyra Banks. broadcast on WOIO-TV earlier this month were treated to anchor Sharon Reed on air naked–that’s wearing nothing at all–reporting on a nude photo installation that featured nude photos of herself, along with hundreds of others. It’s a loopy idea that may pop into a news director’s head at happy hour during sweeps week, but you don’t say it aloud in a news meeting and you sure don’t follow through.īut that’s what happened in Cleveland. You don’t need the extra gimmick just send the serious reporters wearing their clothes. Having a female television anchor cover an arts story while nude is like sending the Blue Man Group to cover the conflict in Fallujah. (WOMENSENEWS)–This is one angle on a news story we didn’t need. ![]()
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