Why Do People On The News Wear Makeup?

It'south well acknowledged throughout the media world that female Play tricks News anchors are typically more, er, coiffed than their liberal counterparts. There are YouTube videos dedicated to Fox women's curt skirts, a fully functioning website called world wide web.FoxNewsGirls.com and Allure once penned a feature declaring, "With its bevy of babes, the network should be chosen the Foxy News Aqueduct."

Miniskirts aside, the main divergence is the makeup. The female anchors of Fob News, Liza Mundy writes for the Atlantic, wear significantly more makeup than any other network'south anchors. While MSNBC's Rachel Maddow does a light, nearly-no-makeup wait and C-SPAN doesn't even have a makeup room, Fox News anchors -- as well as female guests -- get the full bronzer, eye shadow, lip liner, gloss, etc. treatment. When Mundy herself was a Fox News guest, she was coated with "so much [center]shadow that I felt I should be wearing a sash and tiara."

Mundy's not the but 1 to have noticed. An online thread entitled "Play a joke on News Anchor Women" features gems such as, "Do they retrieve they are in a Las Vegas floor evidence?" and "With all that lip gloss, they look similar hookers on the make for a pull a fast one on."

Fittingly, it's been said that Fox is the only network that employs a full-time "epitome consultant" for its on-air personalities. A female Play a trick on regular told Mundy that "she gets more calls from network management virtually her hair, wearing apparel, and makeup than nearly what she says." Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, after all, in one case boasted "I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings." Fox network execs know how this game works.

But Ailes isn't the simply Television executive to admit that sex sells. So why don't C-Bridge, CNN and the remainder dip their female reporters in liquid bronzer and touch up their highlights? Mundy suggests that "the all-time explanation for Trick glam may be the aqueduct's largely conservative audition." Considering, she reasons...

... the Fox News audition skews old. (Ed. annotation: exercise old conservatives similar pretty women more old liberals?)

... the audience skews female person. (Ed. annotation: do women like looking at pretty women more than men?)

... "conservative women are typically less dainty than progressive ones nigh... using your looks to go ahead."

Mundy invokes Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann to support this terminal opinion, which seems only steps abroad from Ann Coulter's exclamation that "all pretty girls are right-wingers."

Theorize all y'all want (allowing your biases for or against Fox News to heavily influence your opinion, natch). To meet for yourself, cheque out our slideshow of female anchors across several major news networks. Do the Play tricks News women seem more made-up that the rest? And is that a bad thing?