Naked News

[Daft]

What do you think of Naked News?

http://www.nakednews.com/


It's a aprox. 15-minute news program, hosted 6 days a week, that features the news provided by naked anchors. The program recently completed 10 years of existence.


Although of course it isn't a naturist-related program, do you think it portraits nudity in a good way?

[Dan]

Although of course it isn't a naturist-related program, do you think it portraits nudity in a good way?

During reading the news, the anchor strips (it's not a striptease as there are no tease part). The quality of news as far as I know is higher than your standard ones you get on TV. If it takes naked news people to get the public to watch the news, then yeah for naked news people.

[Wolfboy]

If "naked news" would be only news about what happened/happens in the Naturist world i think i would watch it but just to see an anchor strip no.
Normal news is good enough for me

[Dan]

If "naked news" would be only news about what happened/happens in the Naturist world i think i would watch it but just to see an anchor strip no.
Normal news is good enough for me

If it was only about that, it would turn boring. Not much news worthy stuff happens in the nudist world...

[Wolfboy]

If it was only about that, it would turn boring. Not much news worthy stuff happens in the nudist world...

Let's change that!
Show to the outside world we young Naturists know what fun is

Most news is boring, naked anchor or not
 

[joeyn]

Forgot all about that show. Didn't they do one with men for the ladies to watch?

Joey

[Dan]

Forgot all about that show. Didn't they do one with men for the ladies to watch?

Joey

I think so.

[Daft]

Yeah, they used to have both men and women as anchors.

But now are only women.

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Although they don't explicit support naturism, the program sometimes is hosted from a naturist beach in Canada. And the segment 'Naked in the Streets' features an anchor interviewing people in the streets topless. I guess that must be legal in Toronto.

[Nude_not_rude]

I've seen a couple of them and think they are a bit of harmless fun really. The reporting is average, so without the nudity they wouldn't have survived the 10 years.

[Dan]

I've seen a couple of them and think they are a bit of harmless fun really. The reporting is average, so without the nudity they wouldn't have survived the 10 years.

Sub-average reporting survives without much trouble on TV...

[Cabding]

From what i've seen its had kinda "eh" news. The nudity aspect as shock value or to get my attention doesnt really work with me being a nudie and all. to get news from them specificly seems kind of a pain when google is much easier. though i admit much less entertaining.

[Daft]

Naked News not degrading


There is nothing degrading to women in e.tv's late night Naked News, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCCSA) said on Wednesday.

The complaint lodged with the commission could not be upheld because the nudity in the programme was not indecent or obscene, it said in a ruling.

The BCCSA tribunal had to decide whether the show, which airs on e.tv after midnight and features bare-chested women reading the news, contravened the Broadcasting Code.

"The tribunal could find nothing degrading to women in Naked News."

Nudity as such was not prohibited in publications or films, and age restrictions and classification strived to exclude children from seeing it.

The BCCSA said the nudity portrayed was unlikely to contribute to violence against women, or to rape.

"The mere fact that the nudity makes no contribution to a better society is irrelevant in law. It is part of the freedom of choice of adults whether they wish to watch the Naked News or not," the BCCSA said.

According to the complainants, who were not named in the ruling, Naked News was "soft porn". They found it "really disgusting" that such a show existed.

"Pornography should not be transmitted into millions of homes."

The BCCSA argued that if people found nudity offensive, they could switch channels or turn the television off.


http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/06/22/naked-news-not-degrading

[Dan]

According to the complainants, who were not named in the ruling, Naked News was "soft porn". They found it "really disgusting" that such a show existed.

I strongly hate those people. They should learn to use the remote control and learn that the world doesn't revolve around making the content they want to see.

[MiloMinderbinder]

I believe naturist news exists? Has anyone seen Clothesfree TV?
http://www.clothesfree.com/videos.html

I wouldn't pay the 50$ or whatever it is to watch them, but it seems like it might be news about naturism.

[Riot.EXE]

Naked News is alright, but it mostly is just chicks telling you news you can get anywhere else for free, while taking their clothes off in a non-sexy manner in the process.  They do have editorial sections and interviews though...so you get to see and hear what they really think about local, national, and global matters.  Is it a good representation of nudism?  No, but there's FAR WORSE representations out there. (like the Bang Bros. "The Nudist Next Door" movie)  They're pretty innocent, really...and only the stuffiest and elitist of nudists (which are fucking RIDICULOUS to me) would be bothered with the site at all.

Yes, there were male anchors for a while, but they didn't work alongside the female ones...they had their own section, but now all evidence of that is GONE.