A couple of thoughts. October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month and November is a TV sweeps month, though I believe sweeps actually started last week. A perfect storm for this story.
Secondly, having watched the video myself (in the interest of good journalism, of course), they clearly picked a model who would be the least offensive based on her personal statistics. Let's just say she won't be working at Hooters anytime soon.
Anyone who thinks this is a new and terrible low in TV news, it's not. In 1974 or 1975 I was a student at Point Loma College in San Diego. The local TV news station pulled the same stunt, though with a much more impressive subject. I don't know what it did for the ratings in San Diego, but I can tell you the ratings in the freshmen men's dorm at Point Loma College were pretty much off the charts.
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I just had a prostrate exam on Friday.
Will they televise something like that someday?
(Maybe in San Fran).
(Sorry if I ruined anyone's dinner. I don't look like Cool Hand Luke.)
A prostrate exam? Does that mean you were laying down at the time?
Or perhaps a prostate exam? A whole different thing.
I count on my computer to flag misspellings.
That one got by.
But, I was prostrate for the prostate exam.
I was thinking the same thing Lew. The poor lowly prostate gets very little press because it's just not cute enough for primetime.
How unfair.
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