Thursday, March 08, 2007
Newspapers, sports and sex -- is the trend inevitable?
>From the San Francisco Chroncle, Sunday March 4, 2007:
NEWSPAPERS TURN TO SEX AND CELEBS
Publications employ titillation in their pages and on their Web sites to
lure back readers
By Jonathan Curiel, Chronicle Staff Writer
For The Sun, Feb. 20 was a banner news day. The tabloid London newspaper
led its front page with an exclusive story on lingerie model Caprice
Bourret checking into rehab. The story's three paragraphs were dwarfed by
a poster-size color photo of the California-born woman wearing nothing but
a bra and panties -- an image tailor-made for a newspaper that thrives on
images of topless Page 3 Girls and stories about celebrity affairs, sex
and scandal. MORE AT:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/04/ING44OD5701.DTL
