Sex Watch: Foxnews.com’s Helpful Tips On Handling Sexy Teachers
Fox News: not afraid to be servicey, in more ways than one. Yesterday, Foxnews.com addressed its readers’ burning concerns by posting a video titled “How to Handle an Inappropriate Teacher.” It involved a Sarah Palin-looking vamp named “Ms. Babcock” seductively biting an apple and sending naughty text messages, so you know it had to be educational.
Ok. Newshounds came out and said it:, “The video looked like a “hot for the teacher” porno flick that had been edited.” The ‘student’ in the film looked twenty-five, and he was wearing a beanie for the teacher to seductively blow on and spin. This taught… something about how “if your teacher is making you uncomfortable, but hasn’t actually said or done anything improper, restrict your time with them to the classroom.” Alas, the teacher overstepped, and a scruffy, leather jacket-wearing cop had to haul her away at the end of the video.
Unintentionally funny: a Fox Business pre-roll ad about living the American dream, “seeing the chance” and “seizing the opportunity.”
The video, by Howcast, is as kitschy as they come, and it’s weird seeing it pop up on a news site: to put on the serious hat for a moment, it goes to show how Fox’s (or at least foxnews.com’s) programming steamrolls over distinctions between news and entertainment, which is a part of why Fox is clobbering its competition. You can’t imagine CNN.com running the same thing. But a weird effect of that is that when something like a student-teacher sex story pops up in the news (and invariably to the top of foxnews.com’s “most popular” list), it’s almost treated as a joke from the outset, without, you know, examining what’s actually wrong about the situation.
Still, the video is of marginal educational value: at the end, an infographic pops up saying that “a 2007 poll found that 7% of respondents had sex with a teacher or student.” Greg Gutfeld, who has come out strongly in favor of ‘sex teachers’ in the past, might not see that as a bad thing.
(h/t Newshounds)
