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Written by Staff Writer
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Feb 28, 2007 at 08:18 PM |
America’s Next Top Model 8 debuts tomorrow night on The CW and it’s already creating buzz. Negative buzz. Residents of Santa Monica, CA demanded that ads featuring the contestants in bathing suits be removed from city buses, because they believed it was degrading to women.
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It’s a matter of public taste. We try to be sensitive to the community,” the city’s director of transit services, Stephanie Negriff, told Variety. The city received complaints not necessarily because of the photograph itself, but because, as Variety explains, “protests came from people concerned that the city was somehow endorsing a show that may objectify women.”
Negriff said the city took down the ads and refunded The CW’s money because “We wouldn’t want to do anything that would disrespect women.”
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Last Updated ( Mar 26, 2007 at 01:34 PM )
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