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Baring the facts as Britain gets first 'Naked News'
AFP/Yahoo ^ | 8/11/04

Posted on 08/11/2004 12:50:35 PM PDT by martin_fierro

Baring the facts as Britain gets first 'Naked News'

LONDON (AFP) - Some British viewers may become more interested in what is going on in the world next week when a satellite television channel shows, for the first time in Britain, the day's news read by naked women.

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"Naked News" will be broadcast at 10:30 pm (2130 GMT) every night from Monday on Get Lucky TV which can be accessed on Sky Digital.

In the show, each of the 12 female anchors begin their segment fully clad before gradually disrobing as they continue to speak.

One of the show's anchors, 27-year-old Lily Kwan, demonstrated the stripping-while-you're-reading technique as photographers snapped her during a central London press conference on Wednesday to launch the show.

Asked whether women would find it degrading, she said: "Fair enough, I recognize some people will feel that way. But I think this is an empowering position. Nudity is okay."

She said there had been a lot of positive feedback from female viewers but added that stripping while reading the news had proved hard at first.

"It required a certain amount of coordination and it was difficult. But I have a great cast to work with."

Samantha Page, 35, will be the first ever British "Naked News" presenter. She has a degree in psychology and zoology and holds a black belt in karate.

"We are not perfect women," she said. "We are normal women and viewers accept that we are no better than they are."

"Naked News" was launched in Canada in 1999 and reaches a potential weekly television audience of 34 million people in the United States. While the British "Naked News" will feature only women, men are anchors in programs in other countries.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fairbalancedunafraid; journalismtoday; nakednews; whatanobleprofession
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To: martin_fierro
This thread could get real interesting...


21 posted on 08/11/2004 2:29:46 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."-Pope JPII)
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To: martin_fierro
This story does not mention that "Naked News" is also on the Internet in the US. (Not that I've ever watched it, mind you.)

John / Billybob

22 posted on 08/11/2004 2:31:12 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com Visit. Join. Help. Please.)
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To: martin_fierro
These girls will bare the facts.... the naked facts.

I like it.

23 posted on 08/11/2004 2:37:12 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
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To: martin_fierro; JoeSixPack1

what the heck sort of PREvert are ya, marteen? lordy!


24 posted on 08/11/2004 2:38:59 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: JoeSixPack1; martin_fierro

Heather Nauert and Patti Ann Browne?


25 posted on 08/11/2004 2:39:10 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
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To: harrycarey
Naked News motto:

"All Bush, All the Time."

ROFL!

26 posted on 08/11/2004 2:40:25 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
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To: beyond the sea

http://www.jerseygop.com/R_babes/index.html

checkumout! Hot stuff!! (From Bo to AnnaZ!)

<|:-)~~


27 posted on 08/11/2004 7:39:28 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1 (Freedom Stands Because Heroes Serve.)
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To: JoeSixPack1

K.D. Lang?! You want nekkid pictures of K.D. Lang???


28 posted on 08/11/2004 7:47:35 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Which FReeper likes to threaten to beat up women?)
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To: JoeSixPack1

Nice! I want to marry Heather Nauert or Ms. Browne.........or both. :-)


29 posted on 08/11/2004 7:55:01 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
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To: martin_fierro

Naked News? I get my news from Free Republic... and I AM NAKED!


30 posted on 08/11/2004 8:17:31 PM PDT by libsrscum (My first tagline. I think it needs improvement.)
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To: NYC GOP Chick
Imitation sKerry :

w ell IIIII was ty p ing and IIII m ade a mi stake.

Your such a tough audience! but no..not lang, and yes, I deserve a beating,, I didn't know I meant E.D. and wrote K.D. and I have no excuse except my own stupidity, But I have a pic!!

<|:-)~~

Please forgive my insanity. Judgemental punishment will be accepted.

31 posted on 08/11/2004 8:19:16 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1 (Freedom Stands Because Heroes Serve.)
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To: JoeSixPack1
I thought this is what you meant:


32 posted on 08/11/2004 8:20:48 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Which FReeper likes to threaten to beat up women?)
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33 posted on 08/13/2004 6:25:00 PM PDT by mirkwood (If we stop voting, will they go away?)
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