Women of Influence?

You're probably aware that people in a number of industries sign contracts that contain a moral turpitude clause. A company's reputation and earnings can suffer when a high profile employee is involved some kind of debauchery that garners negative public attention. Let's say for example video of you doing stripper moves on a stripper pole were to surface on the Internet. Not good, right?

That's not the case for WTAE Action News anchor Kelly Frey in Pittsburgh. She learned and demonstrated stripper moves during a lame TV news health report about pole dancing as a fitness fad. The station is proud enough to have the piece on its website. You can watch the video at:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/health/11025579/detail.html

Her official station bio is at http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/wtaenewsteam/304269/detail.html

I could write a book on what's wrong with Ms. Frey's "health report" on pole dancing. However, the point I'm trying to make has less to do with Ms. Frey heaving her breasts skyward and grovelling on the floor in the name of journalism than it does with the idea that we continue to place high profile people on pedestals of influence.

It's a crying shame that the women who end up being front-of-mind due to their media presence are afforded such cultural equity in today's society, regardless of whether they are shaving their head for attention or masquerading sensationalism as journalism. But then again, is it fair to blame the media machine when we are completely capable of making better media choices?