The UK press according to Lord justice levesons shows women unfairly and unjustly. There are five factors which they use to discredit women in the UK newspapers which are:
1.Sex objects
2.wives and mothers
3.passive roles
4.relative invisability
5.too fat/ thin/old/young.
Sex objects:
1. extremely sexual images, seen as terrible as pornography.
2. Anna Van Heeswijk of campaign group Object, told the Leveson Inquiry.
3. She collect evidence which confirmed that: excessive objectification of women in some parts of the press, making them seem like mere sex tools. This test was done on 11 British newspaper articles .
4. There was also an example on the Daily Star story in 2001 about the singer Charlotte Church, then aged 15, with the commentary: "She's a big girl now... looking chest swell".
5. Another example was:
- Press coverage of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! largely focused on bikini-clad soap star Helen Flanagan
- When she was voted off this week, tabloid headlines included "Helen's melons out in telly jungle shocker" and "They're out"
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