How sexually sick are conservatives & Fox News? They blurred parts of the Picasso painting. #SickMinds pic.twitter.com/5PGw5h5iBs
— Jerry Saltz (@jerrysaltz) May 13, 2015
Fox 5 New York caught a ton of flak this week after censoring a famous Picasso painting during one of its news stories.
The painting at the center of the controversy, Women of Algiers (Version 0), was recently sold at a Christie’s auction for a mind-blowing $179.4 million. The local Fox station was running a piece on the auction, but when it was time to show the actual painting, they decided to blur the breasts of the three women depicted in the famous work. Fox has no hate for the booty, though, allowing a set of buttocks from the painting to be shown during the news story.
Needless to say, the takes on the interwebs were rather toasty:
https://twitter.com/feministabulous/status/599237251625656321
Fox News which broadcast IS atrocious videos in full, has censored breasts of a Picasso painting on air. pic.twitter.com/w8hw8nupTR
— Agnes C. Poirier (@AgnesCPoirier) May 15, 2015
https://twitter.com/MarkFischel/status/599265148654788608
Feeling the white-hot fire from social media, the station posted a brief Facebook mea culpa:
At the very least, it was decent of Fox 5 to admit they were wrong. We can only hope, though, that Fox won’t immediately cater to the Helen Lovejoy-types of the world in the future. Doubtful, but maybe.
(Via the Guardian, Mashable)