On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:57:41 +0000 (UTC), "Col"
wrote:

What we do get are those programmes I have heard described as
'weather porn'.

We may be closer to that than you think - literally. Naked News has,
apparently, just started in the UK:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds15323.html

In the interests of research, I checked the BBC website and found this
article about the original Canadian launch of Naked News:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1298380.stm

and I quote: "Weather presenter Dianne Foster, however, insists the
news content is important. "I think people are watching it for the
news not the nakedness, after all you can get nakedness anywhere on
the net," she says.

The ultimate dumbing down?

--
Dave