Fox News hires pro wrestling bikini model as anchor, further blurring line

[yurbud]

Maybe somebody at Fox has a really dry sense of humor and is trying to undermine the network from within.

On the other hand, getting someone from WWE is kind of redundant since Fox News is the suit and tie equivalent.

"Anchorwoman" To Join O'Reilly

Lauren Jones, the bikini model-turned anchorwoman is making her TV debut a couple of nights early. The controversial Fox reality show "Anchorwoman" premieres Wednesday night, but Jones will be a guest on The O'Reilly Factor tonight.

B&C's Michael Malone writes about the show, and how it caused quite a dust-up in Tyler, TX. Cameras followed the former WWE diva during a 30-day try-out at the CBS affiliate. But, as Malone writes, even the president of the company that owns Tyler's Fox affiliate is outraged: "They're making a mockery of the news department." "We'll run Anchorwoman, but I have reservations" said Sheldon Galloway, president of White Knight Broadcasting.

And here's kicker: "Jones attracted new viewers that stuck around and may help ratings when July Nielsen sweeps numbers arrive soon."

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/anchorwoman_to_join_oreilly_65406.asp?c=rss

More in depth coverage of the journalism smackdown:
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6470003.html?industryid=47169

[Ekirh]

1. Been a wrestling fan for over 16 years. . .

And I don't even remember her . . so it was definitely a short stay... or an unremarkable one.. or both . .

In anycase.. ugh.

[yurbud]

2. she was a bikini girl so just decoration

[negativenihil]

25. OT: wow, never expected to see someone with ...

...an NGE character in a post ;)

you aware of Rebuild coming next month? first of 4 new animated movies to retell the story. First 3 will retell the series, while the 4th will be all new ground.

[Ekirh]

39. LOL I've heard.

Yah, I change my Sig pic here and there.. it was for awhile a japanse pro wrestler.. then it was Osaka from Azumanga.. now it's Gendo . . he just has this nice "Are you sure you want to post that reply" look on his face.

I can do without the retelling, but I'll be interested in the new ground.

[underpants]

3. This is a staple of the Fox News business model

From day one they have had "babes" on. There is some infatuation that several Fox News viewers that I know had with Laurie Dhue (something like that) it was as if they were commanded to all worship her. Seriously I kept running into it and I never understood it-Yeah she isn't ugly or anything she just did strike me as being THAT HOT or anything.

Now Carol Costello is a whole other story.

[niceypoo]

4. Eventually they will be reduced to using carnival barkers

and pushing news stories like, 'one legged running back makes 98 yard touchdown run,' and, 'woman turns into snake.'

[yurbud]

8. It will be Bill O'Reilly, this chick, and Benny Hinn

[Javaman]

32. o'lielly better keep his drool bucket handy.

I fully expect the falafel man to continue on his quest of being the perfect asshole.

[jojo54]

5. IMO, they've always been like tabloid news.

All about the fanfare and never the truth.

[RB TexLa]

6. Funny, I remember seeing the billboards on I-20 saying "She's coming"

:rofl:

[TlalocW]

7. this is just a response to

CNN's purported hiring of Chyna to anchor their economy/money matters division, which her doctorate in Keynesian Economics from Harvard qualifies her to do.



TlalocW

[yurbud]

9. Did Keynes wear an armored black leather bra too?

[poverlay]

14. Please tell me that you're not joking... That would be perfect. n/t

[TlalocW]

22. I am joking

But then I looked up her Wikipedia entry, and it turns out she's pretty smart - could play violin and cello as a child, United Nations scholarship at age 16 to Spain, proficient in Spanish, French, and German, and taught literacy in Costa Rica with the Peace Corps. So she at least has enough brains to be part of either "news" organization.

TlalocW

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Anyone here watched Idiocracy?

All that's missing now is a muscle guy with a bowtie and a thong.

[yurbud]

11. send them the suggestion

[unpossibles]

13. my god, I was thinking the same thing

it's like they see things like that and think, "what a great idea!"

Just like how Rove, et al saw 1984 and thought it was a playbook apparently.

I loved that movie; as scary as it was funny. I cracked up when FOX came on and it was the only thing which hadn't changed.

[yurbud]

17. similar experience watching V for Vendetta--only the faces were changed, rant the the same

on the fascist news.

[yurbud]

18. somebody has to do a good mash up of the two to see if Fox is parody-proof

[Katherine Brengle]

31. Great movie -- and exactly where we are headed.

It might be silly, but the basic point was that society is dumbing waaaaaaaay down and eventually we're just going to be a bunch of drooling idiots zonked out in front of tvs on toilet-armchairs.

[niceypoo]

12. Lauren Jones, AKA, "Jiggles"

She will be gone in a year and O'Reiley will be $37 Million poorer.

[gatorboy]

15. HAHAHAH!! Someone at Fox took that Idiocracy shit seriously.

[dipsydoodle]

16. Doesn't anchor

rhyme with something or other ?:shrug:

[spanone]

19. i like my news with sex & violence

:sarcasm:

[VLC]

20. Apparently the bikini is unnecessary for "progressives" to slobber all over themselves anyway

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6850810&mesg_id=6850810

[bamacrat]

21. Are you fucking kidding me?

They can no longer call The Daily Show or The Colbert Report "fake news". She may be a good tv personality but all faux news has is people who like to talk at a camera. They suck.

:puke:

[yurbud]

24. I get a migraine just clicking past it in the channels. I have a downward mobility phobia

that Fox News, country music, and nascar all aggravate.

[momster]

23. O'Reilly Drools on Camera!

He's not going to be able to control himself when this young lady appears on his program. I hope she learned a few self-defense moves from wrestling; she may need them!

[PA Democrat]

26. Good thing the shot of her sitting on the anchor desk was taken at an angle

or else we'd all know more than we want to about her undergarments or lack thereof.

[AngryAmish]

27. ummm, Fox didn't hire her, CBS did

She is a guest on O'Reilly

That said, I see no reason why people who read the news should not be as hot as possible. They don't find the news, they don't create the news, they read it.

As long as they can pronounce words correctly the only bona fide occupational qualification, in my book, is attractiveness. They read the news. They do nothing else.

I would rather look at attractive people than unattractive ones on TV.

This WWE gal is attractive and if she can pronounce things correctly then she is qualified to read the news, moreso than many uglier people.

[Crabby Appleton]

40. Yep - I noticed that missleading subject

fox didn't hire her -being a guest on a shw is not the same as being hired.

[Akoto]

28. O'Leilly: "Welcome aboard, Lauren. Do you like falafels?"

[catmandu57]

29. Then she ought to fit right in

fake boobs, fake face, fake bottom, fake news.

[Katherine Brengle]

30. I've been referring to them as "News Models" for quite some time now.

There is no line anymore, not in the mainstream tv news.

[Javaman]

33. Next on fox...

A porn star becomes a white house reporter...oh wait. that was done already.

:rofl:

[yurbud]

35. "Bulldog, I'll catch if yur pitchin'--a question I mean."

"at least this time."

[Lance_Boyle]

34. White Knight Broadcasting? Really?

They're pretty open about it, I guess. And here I thought those were dunce caps on their heads...

[leftofthedial]

36. at least on Faux,

she won't have Tweety leering at her

[SalmonChantedEvening]

37. Making a mockery of news? bahahaha

That rock kept ya hid well son. Go back under it and amaze me some more :rofl:

[Deja Q]

38. It'll be fun to hear what he has to say.

:* :* :*

?

[Greyskye]

41. Is there a reason...

...that she appears to be about to fellate her mic, which she is holding upside down in the picture on the right?

:crazy: