Chyron of the Day: Boobs

I hate when things get in the way of my breasts. Name tags, bibs, shirts -- all verboten. And when a network tries to cover a woman's bosom with chyrons, it takes an heroic company like FOX News Channel to say "No. No, we won't succumb to this anti-cleavage crusade. We will stand up and take the chyrons down."

In this case they spared both their breats AND legs visual oppression. Thank god for the Neil Cavuto and his fast-thinking graphics team.

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Comments

[TalkingFrog]

I don't know. I'd never watched FOX news, but read on HuffPo that they liked to sport cheesecake, so I checked it out. It took me a while to even determine if my cable network carried FOX news, but I found it and watched it for about 20 minutes. Not even an inch of cleavage! The newscaster looked nothing like the lovely women at the top of this thread.
I tuned to another channel, but kept checking back on FOX during the commercial breaks. Nada. This was early evening. Is there a better time to watch FOX for this sort of stuff? I found FOX News so incredibly boring, I can't imagine watching it for any other reason, but then, I don't generally watch any corporate news casts.

[Ramirez]

FOX is removing the info-clutter from images of seductive female infidels to distract the youth and promote Western decadence. This activity is deliberately offensive to Islam. The shameless females should be covered by law and everyone involved should be lashed.

[tomsfork]

As a internationally recognized spathologist, I must applaud Fox News for their contribution to my science. This is the only thing I like about Fox.

(For those who did not pick up the joke: spathic is a word used by geologists to describe how certain rocks break. Look it up for a good laugh.)

[Leper]

That was mildly amusing.

[dogman44]

Can somebody please tell me what CHYRON means?
I can't find the word in any of my unabridged
dictionaries.

[AMolinaro]

Thanks alot, you've given me an example of something I actually like about Fox News. I hope you're happy.

And despite the fact someone has beaten me to it, I am experiencing an almost irrepressible urge to make a boob joke about O'Reilly, Hannity, et al.

[gujarbhai]

I would love to be that microphone or name tag.

[Canukistani]

Hey, I applaud Faux for this (and probably only this). There was a time when tv screens were not cluttered with labels for who was talking, a summary of what they were saying, a headline crawl, the time, the temperature, the station logo and all the other junk that they fill the screen with now. The screen barely has the space to show us the main program any more.

Used to be that if you wanted to know what was going on, you paid attention. I guess that's beyond too much of the audience these days.

[RumiSouth]

Ah, yes... Faux News family values. A picture really is worth a thousand words.

[yappnmutt]

all hail foxnews! they have no problem understanding the content they spew forth...much of it is very attractive. all hail cleavage.

[DanOregon]

As a sports fan, I get upset when crucial parts of action are obscured in highlights by chyrons or bugs.
I wish Fox would just cut to the chase and do full nudity and quit being coy.

[Toestring]

Why is it that I suspect you of being insincere in writing "I hate when things get in the way of my breasts. Name tags, bibs, shirts -- all verboten"? Otherwise, that you have pronounced such items "verboten" meaning "forbidden" would indicate that you do not in fact wear shirts (and by inference other such concealing or distracting adornment). On the other hand, if your comment was indeed sincere then I have yet another reason for Thanksgiving. On a serious note, thanks for the good work.

[Stevelagain]

Yes, speaking as a man, sometimes those permanent news blurb blocks at the bottom of the screen are frustrating.

I suppose it's a "look" that sells like a sleek magazine, but I personally don't want to "multi-task" when watching the news.

No one really can focus on multiple items at once and do it well. If you concentrating on the text you don't get all that's being said and if you are focused on the speech you aren't really getting the text.

It's like the studies they do that prove that talking on a cell phone and driving are dangerous. In fact, doing anything in the car while you are driving is dangerous from just adjusting the radio to discipling the kids.

I once was driving down a side street back in the days when "The Incredible Hulk" was on the air. A small child jumped out in front of my car, deliberately, giving me that "Hulk Pose". Had I been looking up at some girl on the porch or adjusting the radio that kid would be dead and I wouldn't even have realized he jumped in from of me deliberately. Fortunately I got stopped in time (tires squealing) and then the kid whent running off.

Take the crap off the screen CNN, Fox, Etc.

Give us an occasional crawl if you must but do away with that permanent block of crap at the bottom of my screen.

[Pdubya]

alex....23/6 is in the way... ;-)

[Pdubya]

those boobs on faux are the only nutritional content on that station....come on people!