To think more people could speak up about the way 'Journalists' write?

[WildFlowerBees]

Magazines and papers that 'report' and I use the word loosely on how women are dressed. So and so flaunts in a bikini puts on a leggy display. Etc etc.

I don't read papers like the fail etc but you see things on social media and it's really is time this kind of language stopped. Reducing women to what they're wearing is disrespectful and I wonder why more isn't being said or done to stop this kind of crass reporting. I doubt the stories they write are even news!

It's lazy, lazy reporting - it basically means 'we've bought some photos of a celebrity from a paparazzo... there is no other story, so we're just going to describe them [in a letchy way] to justify publishing them and getting your clicks'...

I expect they say 'flaunting', 'leggy display', etc, to provoke a reaction or invite comments (good or bad) on how the celeb looks, to get more online engagement - it's gross and cynical (and depressing!), but that's online news for you, every click counts...

For the printed version, I guess it's just that they think people like celebrity 'stories'? But I agree it's grim.

Have you ever thought that these people actually put these photos out themselves? It's pretty common practice. Everything is PR managed by their agents. Also the papers that go in for the like 'xx stuns in bikini" "leggy blonde" are tabloids if you don't like that style of reporting don't read those publications.

People buy these magazines and newspapers though. It's supply and demand. Men moved on from the Nuts and Zoo type magazines, so they are no longer available. Women still buy the celebrity magazines, so articles like that continue.

Oh, it's gross.
Not only that, it's deeply fucking weird.
And does make me judge the Daily Mail/Sun readers who read the celeb sections, because it's so weird, how can anyone read it?? If you've ever read anything a stalker has written about seeing their victim in public, it's actually remarkably similar. I don't understand how people can be reading the articles, which means they are just there to look at the pictures. Which is fine to a certain extent, a celebrity gets married and you want to have a nose at the guests. But then it's literally just a celebrity in a bikini whose gained a bit of weight, I do think people should be asking themselves some tough questions about why they want to consume this content, and whether they think it's ethical to contribute to the advertising revenue of a company that produces this content to make money.