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I know that FOX News is a wholly separate entity from your local Fox 5, which is basically just wall to wall “I like turtles,” and yet somehow the fact that this happened on a FOX affiliate DOES seem appropriate. From Gawker:
A Fox affiliate in Connecticut was forced to apologize several times yesterday after it aired b-roll of female breasts to illustrate a morning news report on a “Women’s Day” event being held in the state Capitol.
Fox CT sent out a tweet yesterday morning after controversy first began to stir, saying the file footage was used in error.
A TWEET! Hahahahaha. The Connecticut FOX affiliate in question has 11,000 followers on Twitter, which is a totally fine number, but one can also do the math, right? Like, so many more people will just see the offending clip (which is after the jump, and it actually really is offending) and not ever follow this news broadcast on Twitter, and then there is the small group who watches the news and follows the station but maybe they weren’t on Twitter at 1:03PM. It just is not effective as a means of apologizing, and that goes for you guys too. Cut it out. Stop apologizing on Twitter you WEIRDOS. Grow up. Say it to my face. Anyway, I guess the FOX affiliate eventually issued a formal apology, and we are talking about it on the Internet so maybe that does or does not count for anything (SPOILER ALERT: “does not”) but also this clip is kind of hilarious:
Good grief! That is the longest sustained b-roll clip I have ever seen. “Should we cut away when the guy in the blue parka fills the screen for three seconds? Cut to a notable woman in history, or even just back to the anchor at her desk? No? Stick with it because when the guy moves out of the way we’re going to get that sweet, sweet camisole shot? Got it. I figured we would just stick with it, because this shot of two random breasts walking down the street is worth it and it really helps to bring home the idea of the important role women play in society, I just figured I should ask but also JK because men don’t like asking for things am I right HIGH FIVE.” Anyway, yuck, though, right? AND WHERE IS THE NEW POPE IN ALL OF THIS? HIS SILENCE HAS BEEN NOTED.
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“Cut to a notable woman in history, or even just back to the anchor at her desk? No?”
Well, they did linger on that Wendy’s cup for a bit.
That kind of seemed like the most offensive part of the clip.
I think the shot of jugs while they’re talking about high school girls was EXTRA appropriate.
True story. I went to an all-girls Catholic high school, and detentions were called JUGs. They stood for Justice Under God.” Huh? Also, one of our rival all-girls schools was Ladywood? What? Nuns, man. They’ve got twisted senses of humor, I guess.
(I wish I could edit the grammar and punctuation on that whole comment. Sr. Renee would be so disappointed.)
My brother went to a Jesuit high school and they had the JUG acronym, too. It apparently consisted of walking the perimeter of the courtyard in silence for an hour after school. At least I think that’s right. I went to public school, grew my hair long, and stuck it to the man.
Good thing you didn’t try to stick it to any men in a Catholic school. The pope is against that.
I think our JUGs were just sitting in a classroom silently. I wouldn’t know, because I was a good girl and never had one. I guess I learned my lesson in elementary school, when I had to stay in during recess pretty often because I didn’t finish my homework. That was called “Recess Club.”
A comment about a room full of Catholic school girl jugs should really help with Videogum’s SEO. Hi, confused perverts reading this for years to come!
I do what I can.
My fiance’s all-boys school did that too, I always thought it was hilarious – Jesuit as well, so maybe that has something to do with it.
This isn’t fully on-point, but I feel it is appropriate anyway.
I feel like this gif is missing something. Have you thought about making it with just a shot of her breasts?
I don’t think breasts are allowed on the internet.
I will always upvote Faye Dunaway.
I’m freaking out here, you guys. I can’t decide whether to make a joke about the inappropriate boob shots or the 11k people who feel the need to follow their local Fox affiliate on Twitter.
That is a lot of people who have made bad decisions. I’m also a bit concerned about the people who went to complain about this. I mean, I get being upset about it. But if I saw this on the news, I would probably just consider it something stupid from some stupid people, and then just move on, because I got other shit to do.
Hahahahahahahah, oh Facetaco, as someone who has to take insane viewer phone calls at a local television station, I can tell you that NOTHING happens without someone getting it into their head to call and complain. NOTHING. Yesterday, a woman called to complain that the Pope news was breaking into her regularly scheduled programming. Actually she just yelled, “STOP PUTTING NEWS ON DURING THE DAAAAAYYYY!!!!” and then hung up before I could say anything.
Oh, I don’t doubt it. But it still bugs me. I took a call once from someone who wanted to complain about junk mail (even though I was tech support). If you spend time calling to complain about junk mail, you will never ever get anything done again. Then she had to put a racist cherry on top of her crazy ice cream by saying that she’s offended by the junk mail in Spanish, because her family has lived in America for blah blah generations.
This was actually supposed to be teaser footage for the evening lead story, “A new report on boobs finds that they might be less safe than you might have thought. Tune in at 10.”
Could strangers be videotaping your naughty bits and showing them to countless others? Find out tonight!
hahaha
It’s true. Mine keep pulling the Kansas City Shuffle on unsuspecting tourists.
YOUR BOOBS PLAY JAZZ PIANO?!
They are multi-talented, they are.
you should start a youtube channel.
I was thinking the Lucky Number Slevin variety. Incidentally, that movie only has 51% on Rotten Tomatoes. I realize Rotten Tomatoes counts for very little in determining a quality movie, but THAT MOVIE WAS SO GREAT YOU GUYS.
Oh the con. I guess that makes sense. It is supposed to be a two mam job. (No that’s not a typo, it’s a pun. Sorry, I’ll go kill myself now.)
Don’t bother, LBT’s jugs are about to do the job for you.
I love that movie so so much.
You do not want to know what footage they used for pie day.
Extra credit to the writer who clarified that they were “female boobs”
Men’s day is right around the corner!
That is a very specific fetish that cameraperson has: boobs with beverages.
I’m just happy that someone sitting around, shooting b-roll of boobs was able to sell it for journalism. Usually films of this quality are archived in a cellar or on a smart phone for posterity.
I can’t tell if the anchorwoman is pausing so much because she’s terrible at her job or because she’s seeing the b-roll and is just kind of “WTF.”
definitely seems like the latter to me
I really wish I had a TV camera right now. There is a guy in the parking lot who’s really busy adjusting his junk. Wow. It must be really tangled up in there.