ESPN’s Ashley Brewer Short Skirt Shows Tanned Legs To Draw And Hold Viewer Attention For Ratings

Have you noticed how often those short skirts and dresses on the female Fox News hosts hike up? Do you think it’s just a coincidence how often that happens?

If you’re wearing a short dress or a short skirt and you cross your legs, it’s almost guaranteed to ride up. 

I’ve collected some screen grabs of Outnumbered, which has four female cohosts, over the last several months. Check out how all the ladies seem to have their legs crossed at all times, thus exposing more thigh.

In the screen grab below, Meghan McCain, second from the right, in a red dress, is the exception to the rule. Her dress is long and she has her legs crossed demurely at the ankle. The wreaths on the window show that this screen grab came from a show around Christmas.

But in this grab, from January, 2016, Ms. McCain has now gotten right with the program.

It’s not just Outnumbered.

Do you think someone tells these women to wear short skirts and cross their legs? Or do they just all think the same way?

I report, you decide.

The Question Still On The Floor: Why Did Fox News Ask It’s Female Broadcasters To Put On Short Skirts and Hike Them Up? And What Is ESPN Doing With Ashley Brewer?

As a note, this post is not a complaint about either ESPN’s Ashley Brewer, or Fox News, just a post to acknowledge the obvious that it seems others are afraid to point out, today. To the view of this vlogger, it marks a cultural divide that, at first, looked like a cultural shift.  In other words, it seems that ESPN’s saying such an act is a necessary part of its broadcast presentation, just as Fox News looked like it was making a similar statement “back in the day.” 

Anyway, while Scott has denied claims she kept the practice going, the many internet accounts prove that she did.

Fox News Viewership Skyrocketed Under Roger Alies And His Sexy-Woman-Focused Strategy

The simple truth of why Fox News started and maintained a dressed code around showing women’s legs was that it translated into giant viewership and ratings numbers – that is the mother’s milk of media since it translates to money, and a lot of it.  From 2000, or just four years after Roger became CEO, viewership started at 200,000, and CNN was eating its lunch at 400,000 viewers.  But it’s programming and style took hold, and in 2001 it was 80 percent of CNN’s viewership, and then in 2002, Fox News overtook CNN for the first time with 680,000 viewers versus 550,000 for CNN.  Then, and due to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, in 2003, Fox News nearly doubled its viewership, with over 1 million, where CNN only grew to 650,000.  While Fox News experienced highs and lows, it never lost its average 2 to 1 lead in viewership over CNN, MSNBC, and HLN. 

The reason for this is Fox News is not afraid to represent a mainstream, predominantly white, and socially conservative American view.  Part of that audience, and a large one, consists of conservative middle-aged white men.  That written, black men increased in ranks of the GOP and as evidenced by a six percent increase in black male voters for Donald Trump in 2016.  The same was true for Latinos, too.  The bottom line is an increasingly diverse conservative America is helping to maintain Fox News viewership supremacy, even today. 

The point is, the audience for the kind of sex-appeal-based television news that Roger Ailes pioneered is still with us, and the fact that ESPN would chose to have Ashley Brewer put on an obviously short skirt proves it. It may be that a television company that can not mistreat its female representatives, yet have a sex-oriented approach, can be the new viewership king.  In the middle of the Pandemic, where money is tight all around and many sports reporters have been sacked, ESPN can be forgiven for trying to do almost anything to hold on to its viewership.

Stay tuned.