Via bean and Feminist Law Professors, this site (which is really just an ad for OutFOXed) cuts together real footage from FOX News that features scantily clad women designed to, as bean puts it, "titillate its conservative audience." There's nothing conservatives love more than slut-shaming, and there's no better way to do that then basically display blurred-out porn for its audience.
But I wonder -- is CNN or MSNBC any better? Sure, FOX is an easy target because they're the most overtly conservative, but it's hard to deny the effect FOX has had on the "respectable" news outlets. I think that we could easily put together a video (although perhaps not as long or graphic) that features a lot of the same footage. This is because cable news outlets operate in a very narrow way. They compete directly with one another, often putting up their own versions of the same story to chase after ratings.
If you ask me this is a problem with FOX, but it's also a problem with all cable news. The only way we'll get more substantive coverage is if we demand it.
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