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Naked News, um, Embiggening?

By Ken Hunt

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Toronto-based Naked News (NSFW, duh), which already broadcasts both an English and Japanese version, will soon also be available in Spanish, Italian and Korean. That’s right. While other newsrooms are cutting back, laying off correspondents, and eliminating foreign bureaus, Naked News is (insert your pun of choice here).
If you are not familiar with the Naked News phenomenon, the site offers subscribers 22 minutes of headlines, light news, and celebrity interviews, six days a week. The program is delivered by articulate, charismatic women who undress as they read the news. It’s as simple as that. During a typical segment, a Naked News host will go from wearing a regular women’s suit, to lingerie, to nothing at all, all while talking about Bush’s trip to the Middle East, or the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, in a completely straight-faced manner.
What’s nice about Naked News is that they’re up front about the fact that most news programs today are as much about sex appeal as they are about anything else. At least Naked News is being honest about it, which is a lot more than we can say about certain American news channels.
(For the record, Torontoist is written by fully clothed journalists who only on the rarest of occasions work in their pajamas or underwear.)
Photo of Christine Kerr from the Naked News website

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  • Val Dodge

    I can’t believe the Naked News is still kicking.
    According to anchor Victoria Sinclair‘s Wikipedia entry:

    She is also one of the only two current newscasters to have had journalistic experience before joining Naked News.

    I haven’t laughed so hard in 5 years.

  • Rajio

    Thanks for the DIY Pun!

  • Johnnie Walker

    Whatever happened to the Male Edition of Naked News… that I know about because… a friend told me… Yeah.

  • Ken Hunt

    More from Victoria Sinclair’s Wikipedia entry:

    She also started the tradition of reporting serious and tragic news without disrobing, as when she demanded to remain fully clothed to report on the death of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. However, only the most major tragedies, it seems, warrant remaining clothed: the news routinely includes items related to natural disasters, wars, and crime for which Sinclair, and other Naked News anchors, disrobe while reporting.

    Now there’s journalistic integrity!
    BTW, Johnnie even though the Male Edition of Naked News is no longer producing new episodes, you can still get your fix here:
    http://www.nakednewsdailymale.com/

  • Kevin Bracken

    I write Torontoist articles naked all the time.
    Seriously.

  • Karen Whaley

    Ack! I do not want to see that woman naked.

  • Ken Hunt

    I did not choose her picture for this piece based on looks, but rather for the fact that hers was one of the few without nudity, or at the very least “side boobs”