WHIMSICAL, WHIMSICAL, WHIMSICAL
NOT FOX, NOT , NOT CNN, NOT HLN, NOT MSNBC and NOT EVEN AMERICAN but glaring shots (excuse the pun) of the existence of 'News titillation'.
A few questions: 1 Do you really think this reporter had to go through a normal interview to secure a job? 2. Do you think any males viewers care what language she speaks? 3. Is there a story in the segment (even despite language); I did not see one? Why did I not see nor hear a story? 4. Where is this woman's mother?
Do you think language acts a barrier to understanding this story? Why would this media outlet even foot the expense of a set backdrop. I am certain one camera angle is all that is necessary, desired, or useful (your choice). I wonder if the very young in her country are prohibited from viewing the evening news. If so, I wonder how many young females grow up watching her and thinking, "....oh well, think I will become a nurse". Forget this woman's mother, were the hell are the Police? No, No not the police...but, but who will arrest her? FIREMEN??? PRIESTS? Hell, If I were not married, I would make a citizens arrest.
The Power and Influence of ratings!
Feeding the 'foot fetishes'
in the audience?
in the audience?
As I move away from the 'pure' exhibit, I want to revisit the Ratings Wars.
Ratings data that might help illustrate a point, have been pasted or copied below.
Since the early morning hours garner the most 'skirts' shots, I think it notable to view the first sets of data just below. The source of the data was not saved.... shame on me) but if that is an issue, I will locate the data. The fact that the data is a copy and paste without opportunity to modify the data, should help with credibility.
A few bits of slightly aged data before we proceed. PEW RESEARCH DATA (Unformatted and a little hard to discern) CNN FOX MSNBC
Men 43% | 46% | 44% | |
Women 57 | 54 | 56 | |
Republican 17 | 44 | 14 | |
Mod/Lib Rep 9 | 34 | 8 | |
Independent 31 | 28 | 30 | |
Democrat 47 | 21 | 53 | |
Cons/Mod Dem 28 | 16 | 34 | |
Lib Dem 16 | 3 | 18 | |
Well. no real surprises in the data. Basically, FOX News and its predominately male audience has the higher levels of viewer-ship wins the ratings wars.
Those who follow such data might tend to believe that FOX News is the most competent and credible of the three major cable networks.
I notice that FOX hands-down wins the DAY TIME TV Wars
(recent data was not available to me). Bare with me just a moments. The Fox News evening shows with an exception for Van Sustren, is a male bastion. OK, so we know who watches those evening shows. The day-time shows, however, have another dynamic. I suppose their quality of news coverage is superior to both CNN and MSNBC.
FOX NEWS BUSINESS (I will wager the audience is predominately Male!) 2:47 Minutes
I understand the visual impact of camera shots but this segments is inordinately laced with wide shots; lot less facial shots....UUUMMMM wonder why?HLN Hendricks (1:47 Minutes)
This one is a classic....There is no way the camera specialist and the reporter could not have anticipated the visual of this leg cross (No Sound).Bloomberg Joins in.....
The Network King FOX..compilation
I see that Kiran comes over to CNN from FOX. UUMMMMM, and I wondered why her penchant for the leg shots. Oh, gotta check out ED Hill at the 1:18 Minute mark of the video. Is she taking direction or being warned that a bit much is showing?
So much for the Whimsical look (redux). The current practice of news room exposure is moving to levels of completely 'over-the-top'. American viewers are not yet exposed to the level of exposure as depicted at that top of the article; not yet. If newsrooms producers continue to move towards 'stretching acceptable levels of skin', I cannot be convinced that the quality of the news does not suffer.
I am convinced that we will one day see or read about a discrimination lawsuit filed against a network based on issues related to whether of not 'skin exposures' is a Bonafide Occupational Qualification.
In the meantime, I guess we just watch to see where we reach the 'flesh' outter limits or we enjoy....individual perspective.
NOTE: for sake of clarity, I also love good shots of 'skin'...just think that we are moving towards serious overdoses of skin in our television news (ON CERTAIN NETWORKS), and I believe it is very much a strategy and not callousness by the female reporters or anchors.
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