Pornography sets the standard in media business

In the wake of the popularity of light pornography 
shows about Hollywood "news," the huge TV ratings 
for Monica Lewinsky coverage and now the national 
obsession with Condit and Chandra Levy, a new 
Canada-based newscasting company has revealed yet 
again the nature of media in a for-profit economy. 
Nakednews.com has surpassed 6 million separate 
viewers per month for its television style news 
with naked news announcers.

The most popular website CNN gets fewer than 10 
million viewers per month. Meanwhile, 
nakednews.com is such a success that it is now 
moving to pay-per-view cable television. Viewers 
may choose between naked wimmin announcers and 
naked men announcers.

Mainstream news agencies may deny that they are 
pornographic in how they choose their anchors and 
subjects, but they cannot avoid competing with 
NakedNews.com and others like them which are 
obviously pornographic. For this reason, stories 
about Hollywood sex lives, Monica Lewinsky and now 
Chandra Levy dominate the airwaves.

MIM has no puritanical reasons to oppose nudity. 
However, we do oppose the profit-run economy.

Before the end of the profit-run system, MIM tips 
its hat to those who run pornography websites and 
choose to promote MIM material. MIM's media is 
independent and profits no one. 

Pornography ranging from typical ads to really 
sick material attracts participants on the web and 
drives up use of all aspects of the web. Like it 
or not, anyone who has a web site and gets any 
visitors benefits from pornography, which is 
connected to major search engines, major homepages 
and advertisers like Amazon, which advertise 
heavily on NakedNews. Those who believe they are 
isolated from such web traffic are caught in a 
dream-world of petty-bourgeois individualism.

Note: 
USA Today 06Sept2001, 
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-09-
06-naked-news-tv.htm.