Porn World with Neil Cavuto: Fox business show featured more scantily clad women
In a segment of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto titled "Porn to Run," guest host David Asman interviewed Steven Hirsch, co-founder and CEO of Vivid Entertainment Group, about the business of Internet pornography. Throughout the interview, the broadcast was split-screened with footage of scantily clad women pole-dancing and stripping in front of men. Media Matters for America has previously noted that Your World, ostensibly a business show, has often aired photographs and videos of scantily clad women and blurred images of nude women.
In a segment of the May 12 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto titled "Porn to Run," guest host David Asman interviewed Steven Hirsch, co-founder and CEO of Vivid Entertainment Group, about the business of Internet pornography. Throughout the interview, the broadcast was split-screened with footage from adult movies produced by Vivid Entertainment; the clips aired during the interview featured scantily clad women pole-dancing and stripping in front of men. Hirsch has made several appearances on Your World to discuss the sex industry.
Media Matters for America has previously noted that Your World, ostensibly a business show, has often aired photographs and videos of scantily clad women and blurred images of nude women. Media Matters has also noted that Asman has previously conducted interviews with sexually charged themes and images.
From the May 12 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
ASMAN: We all know sex sells. From dirty magazines to adult films, porn is a multibillion-dollar business. It's also a pioneer of sorts, blazing a path across the Internet. And now it wants to teach Hollywood a lesson. On Monday, Vivid Entertainment is going to start selling downloadable movies that can be burned onto DVDs. Will Hollywood, who resisted this for a long time, be forced to follow? Steven Hirsch is CEO of Vivid Entertainment and he joins us now. Good to see you, Mr. Hirsch.
HIRSCH: Thank you.
ASMAN: I have got to ask you a question up front. I'm in the news business. When I go home, the last thing I want to do is turn on the news. Now you are in the sex business. When you go home, is sex the last thing you are interested in?
HIRSCH: I don't know if it's the last thing that I'm interested in. But it's not the first thing I'm looking forward to. I like to hang out with my kids when I get home.
ASMAN: All right. A lot of people wonder that, whether or not the sex industry guy -- whether he burns out on sex. But you say no?
HIRSCH: No. It's just a business.
ASMAN: All right. Well, now, the technology of the business has always been pioneering. I mean, you guys, it can be argued, did more for the Internet, creating business on the Internet than anybody. This new technology, explain as simple as possible how it works.
HIRSCH: It's very cool technology. You are able to go to alladultchannel.com, click on a button, and begin to download a movie to your hard drive. Once you finish that, you are able to burn it on to DVD. What's cool about it is you are not only burning the actual movie, you get everything that goes along with it -- the menus, the behind-the-scenes, the interviews, all of the extras that are part of the DVD.
ASMAN: I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'm just wondering -- Hollywood is resisting this because they don't want a lot of pirating going on. Would this allow people to pirate these things?
HIRSCH: No, we don't think so. This technology has been developed over the last couple of years, and we are comfortable with it. I'm not sure that that's why Hollywood isn't doing it yet.
ASMAN: Why do you think Hollywood is not doing it?
HIRSCH: I think they have to deal with some of their big-box retailers. I mean, people like Wal-Mart and Blockbuster are responsible for a huge percentage of their sales. I think they have to be sure that they are comfortable with it before they move forward.
ASMAN: You think Hollywood is interested in protecting its distributors, so to speak?
HIRSCH: I think that that's certainly part of it. There is the usual amount of red tape that goes along with getting anything done by the major studios.
ASMAN: Now, the question about the Internet. There is always some Internet geek out there who is smarter than the people who are putting out the product. Are you going to be giving away stuff to a lot of geeks that are able to pirate the stuff for free to their friends and family?
HIRSCH: Well, you know, certainly that's a concern. And if we didn't feel comfortable with the anti-pirating technology that's in place, then we wouldn't have moved forward with this. But we are comfortable with it, and we think it's an interesting way. It's obviously much more convenient than going out to a video store, and we think it's cool.
ASMAN: All right, we've got to leave it at that, Steve Hirsch.
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--"ASMAN: We all know sex sells."--
That's "We", as in 'We here at Fox News'.
I have no problem seeing almost nude woman being used as a backdrop for a 'news' story.........
But I always thought that Fox Opinion was the station of morals and decency.......?
Or is that all just a smokescreen.........wait....this is Fox......of course it is!!
Just another in a series of obvious hypocrisy and double-standards from Murdoch, Ailes, and the God fearing REGRESSIVES of our great country!!
At least I'm being honest about where I stand on this........but you would think that Fox would stand up for what it claims to believe in!!
From "CaptFoster2:"
As if that weren't enough, "the Dirty Digger" was also responsible for making "Page Three" a household word between Land's End and John O'Groats thanks to his daily "red-top" The Sun (and his Sunday, the ironically-named News of the World) featuring soft-porn cheesecake pinups, not to mention a steady (and perhaps deliberate to the point of prolefeed) dietary of sensationalism, sleaze and scandal.
The which, it turns out, helps to explain why "the Digger" has such potentially unhealthy media dominance over the minds of Great Britain's poor, undereducated and easily-influenced (as witness some 6.5 million copies of the News of the World alone being sold in an average weekend).
Enough to call for a logical explanation into such outright doublethink.
You'll have to repeat that all over again, Cavuto. I was...you know.
Although a shared hobby, I think it's fair to say Cavuto's fascination with porn doesn't contribute to a greater understanding of world issues in the public sphere.
For many of us, I don't think it's a question of content than it is a question of context. Viewers deserve rational and constructive analysis from a news-network, and pixelated breasts from E!'s "Wild On..." .
I suppose we shouldn't expect anything more from FOX anyways.
Neil Cavuto I will be forever hooked on your show because of the half naked women you alway put on your show. No more watching the discovery channel for me. To be honest this doesn't bother me at all, I know that this is supposed to show him being a hypocrite. Other than that I don't really care. It was kinda funny that they had the porno clips running throughout the clip.
Just like life. ;)
Maria Bartiromo must be shaking her head wondering how her profession gets so degraded by this bobblehead ?
Think about it..
"I don't know about all this blindly following the administration.."
"WHAT ARE YOU? A TRAITOR?!"
"I don't know about all these scantily clad women on my news program."
"WHAT ARE YOU? A QUEER?"
He's trying to get average Fox viewers worked up to breed more white children.
Gibson is the subliminal mastermind behind Cavuto's show.
I don't think they should show any nudity on public tv. If you want to watch that kind of stuff...pay for it.
A big prblem with the "morals" crowd is that the have a nearly psychotic opposition to nudity and sex, but are totally cool with violence.
I guess I'm not a member of the "morals club" because I don't approve of violence either. Put it on the pay channels. There is no place for it on public tv. I might as well include drugs too...pay tv only. In my opinion, none of it has a place in a wholesome family. It has a place in a family that doesn't subscribe to moral values, but not in one that does. I realize that some won't like my opinion, but that's all it is...my opinion.
These Rightwing "bidnessmen" claim to believe in free markets and the miracle of "supply and demand."
Well, guess what? There is a DEMAND for sexually explicit materials. Always HAS been, because human beings are sexual creatures by design.
Ah, but what to do about SUPPLY and DEMAND, when the DEMAND is for something of which we morally disapprove? What if it's sex or drinks or 'recreational' drugs? Then, the Rightwing does an about face. If it's something they feel needs to be CONTROLLED, 'for the good of society', the laws of supply and demand go out the window. Then it's all about governmental fiat and censorship and punishment.
It don't take a Rhodes Scholar to see the rank hypocricy in the Rightwing's "market" proclamations. They are for a market totally under THEIR control, so THEY can make the money.
And on that note, cue the nude dancing girls. There's MONEY to be made, and ratings to be secured.
Porn is okay but not a little good-time weed? It's a world of double-standards out there.
how urban/rap music is finding a new audience to debut its songs inside the nation's strip clubs. Maybe do an expose using T-Pain's "I'm In Love With a Stripper" to help set the tone of the piece.
Was that a Mark Levin in Neil Cavuto's pocket or was he really happy to do this interview and story?