Female Newsreaders & Obsessive Fans
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A look at fan sites devoted to celebrity broadcasters and their feelings about their fans.
Like the other “tribute” sites, the main offerings are pictures or “caps” of the presenters at work, obtained by screen grabbing images using a TV card in a PC. Mr Phillp concedes that that interest in his site is “60 per cent sexual” and that a disproportionate number of “up-skirt” shots make their way on to the internet. But he claims he is offering an information service to “promote the artistic talents of the presenters”. “The attraction is in the combination of beauty and brains. Men are mesmerised by these intelligent journalists,” he said.
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