Concerned Women of America Blasts Fox Over Playboy Special

Newsmax ^ | 5/2/02

[areafiftyone]

Fox Broadcastings plan to air a racy special on Playboy magazine's notorious centerfold is drawing fire from conservative groups.

The network is due to air a two hour show, "The Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold," at 8 p.m. on May 10 and organizations such as Concerned Women For America (CWA) want Fox to reconsider showing the program.

"It's men victimizing women for the sake of money and ratings," Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America told the Associated Press (AP) which cited CWA as one of seven groups, including the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family, that wrote a letter of protest to Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox's parent News Corp.

LaRue told AP she was concerned the special would encourage men to treat women as sex objects and sends a dangerous message to girls.

"It communicates to 12- and 13-year-old girls that this is what you have to do to be attractive to men," she said. "It dehumanizes, it objectifies and it is a gateway to hard-core pornography."

A Fox spokesman, Scott Grogin, brushed off the complaints, telling AP yesterday: "We respect all of our viewers' rights to their opinions. If this is a show they don't like or feel is appropriate, please don't watch."

The planned show will feature a dozen women who are flown to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming one of the magazine's celebrated centerfold models. They're housed at Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's infamous Playboy Mansion, and are filmed while "sunbathing by the pool (and) primping for photo shoots." After being given Hollywood shopping sprees and evenings out at restaurants and clubs, one of them is chosen by Hefner to be featured in a centerfold shoot wearing little or nothing.

The AP described the show as a cross between ABC's popular "The Bachelor" series and its Victoria's Secret fashion show aired last November which sparked a Federal Communications Commission investigation that found that it didn't violate broadcast standards for decency.

Fox has drawn fire from some of the same groups protesting the Playboy show who filed complaints with the FCC last month about Fox's "Boston Public," show, charging that the classroom drama is loaded with sexual topics, particularly for a program airing it what used to be known as television's family hour, the AP reported.

Fox defended "Boston Public" and series creator David E. Kelley, saying "we're proud to have it on our air.

[ThomasMore]

The Judeo-Christian ethic was compromised starting at the end of the nineteeth century. Hedonists have beaten up on cultural morals for 100 years. That's why we live in such a depraved society. And they wonder why we have Columbines. True morality has been abandoned for a subjective philosophy of "if it feels good, do it". A wholesale rejection of the natural law has created a society of amoral men and women who can't see the error. Light HAS turned to darkness.

[TADSLOS]

40 posts and not a single photo. I'm impressed.

[ThomasMore]

they don't care

That's the problem!

[GSWarrior]

It's weird. Malcolm could definitly be a cartoon, while King of The Hill could just as easily be filmed with live actors.

[areafiftyone]

SHHHHH!!!

[RAT Patrol]

Do you really thing the GOP can win WITHOUT social conservatives? Give me a break. Yeah, if we sell-out on issue after issue eventually we win over the entire Democrat party because WE WOULD BE LOSERS, JUST LIKE THEM.

What's up with "we don't win" anyway? We have the WH, the House and we HAD the Senate according to the votes and only lost it because of one traitor -- a GOPer who hates social conservatives.

Deduct the Social conservatives from Congress and count how many GOPers you have left.

[steve-b]

"It's men victimizing women for the sake of money and ratings," Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America told the Associated Press

The DNC called. They want Jan to cough up royalties for using their patented "victim" rhetoric.

[Bush2000]

"It's men victimizing women for the sake of money and ratings," Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America

And your point is ... ? ;-)

[steve-b]

we are men and women created in the image and the likeness of God

To varying degrees. For instance, I find the women who pose for Playboy to be considerably more divine than Rosie O'Donut.

[Hildy]

These Concerned women would be better off to go after shoes like ELIMIDATE...BACHELOR...When I see the commercials for these shows, I just marvel how far women's lib has come. Now you can be proud to be a slut.

[Saundra Duffy]

What's up with Fox. This isn't the first sex crazed piece they've done. I think there's a pervert on the loose at Fox.

[DrDavid]

"It's men victimizing women for the sake of money and ratings," Jan LaRue

"It's women using their bodys to victimize men for the sake of money, attention and ratings."

[Big Bunyip]

What's wrong weith being in it for the money. Prayer and purity and might no be enough for you, but money is the only reason the rest of us get out of bed in the morning.

Also, Rupert is a naturalized U.S. citizen and his Australian holdings are small vs. those in the US and Britain (and europe, asia, antarctica, calathumpia and ....)

[gabby hayes]

Not at all horrified, but still disappointed in Fox and the tenor of pop culture. At times, I question how many of the lockerroom types who post on topics such as this are fathers themselves.

[Ben Bolt]

Raise your family as you wish but your defence mechamism is protruding .

[DittoJed2]

When they start purchasing Christian domain names and using those sites as pornographic sites, they are targeting Christians.

[maxwell]

I watch Fox for sports, and for "Malcolm in the Middle" -- the most realistic American family on television. The rest of their trash goes unwatched.

Hey you HAVE to watch Simpsons and King of the Hill... You're missin' out, man!

[Ben Bolt]

The pendelum swings in all societies Tom . The best thing I found that works for me is to associate with like minded people . That effects more change than anything I have ever tried and it does not require of another to become a dictator .

[DittoJed2]

My defense mechanism is protruding? I am defending the right of Concerned Women to protest the glorification of pornography. This trash gets pumped into my television set. I have every right to stand up and say I don't want it there. Pornography is helping to destroy America. It destroys the lives of young children, damages and destroys marriages, and demeans women. There is NOTHING worthy of glorification here.

[DittoJed2]

Actually, light is still light and darkness is still darkness. Only problem is, even self described conservatives deceive themselves into saying black is white.