Category: Controversy

Sky Sports News Caught In Sexist Controversy !

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Sky Sports News Caught In Sexist Controversy !

SKY SPORTS NEWS have enraged staff after sending out an online survey asking viewers to judge whether their presenters are ‘sexy’ and ‘good-looking.’  The rolling news channel has landed in a spot of bother after its failed attempt at market research led to senior presenters demanding crisis talks with management. The channel has promoted award-winning female broadcasters and journalists for the last 20 years, but have caused outrage with a bungled attempt at market research that led to senior presenters demanding crisis talks with management.  According to The Daily Mail, the Sky…

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China and Russia push ‘fake news’ on coronavirus crisis, claims East Stratcom

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China and Russia push ‘fake news’ on coronavirus crisis, claims East Stratcom

EU officials claim Moscow and Beijing continue to peddle disinformation on social media whose aim is to undermine the European Union and its partners. China and Russia continue to use the global coronavirus crisis to spread false reports and other online disinformation, according to the latest update published Wednesday from the European External Action Service’s team dedicated to highlighting such digital tactics. The group, called East Stratcom and whose mandate includes debunking fake news originating from Russia, said there had been more than 150 cases of pro-Kremlin disinformation linked to the global health…

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Canada actor’s union imposes news rules for filming nudity, simulated sex & sexual violence.

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Canada actor’s union imposes news rules for filming nudity, simulated sex & sexual violence.

ACTRA’s best practices go beyond intimacy coordinators to protect actors during nude and simulated sex scenes from auditions and closed sets to the edit suite. Canada’s actors union, ACTRA, on Friday unveiled “best practices” to protect actors in scenes involving nudity, intimacy, simulated sex and sexual violence. The Canadian guidance includes the use of intimacy coordinators as already recommended stateside by SAG-AFTRA. But the ACTRA guidelines, hammered out in the wake of the #MeToo movement, also cover auditions and nude, intimate and simulated sex scenes from preproduction through to postproduction….

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Model causes stir for breastfeeding while walking the ramp at Sports Illustrated fashion show

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Model causes stir for breastfeeding while walking the ramp at Sports Illustrated fashion show

A model made a significant stir at the Sports Illustrated Swim Search runway appear in Miami for breastfeeding on the catwalk. Mara Martin swaggered down the runway Sunday in a one metallic gold two-piece with 5-month-old little girl Aria, who was breastfeeding en route. The infant wore blue earphones to shield her ears from the boisterous music and wild cheers from the group of onlookers individuals, who reacted excitedly to Martin’s intense look. “I can’t trust I am awakening to features with me and my little girl in them for…

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Russian national arrested for allegedly interfering with U.S. politics

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Russian national arrested for allegedly interfering with U.S. politics

The U.S. Branch of Justice (DOJ) said Monday that a Russian lady has been captured and accused of supposedly meddling with U.S. governmental issues. The lady, recognized as 29-year-old Maria Butina, was captured Sunday in Washington D.C, where she dwelled, as indicated by a DOJ proclamation. Mariia Butina in 2013 in Moscow. She was charged Monday with carrying out a secret Russian effort to influence American politics.CreditItar-Tass/Zuma Press Court filings against Butina said she went about as a specialist of Russia by “creating associations with U.S. people and penetrating associations…

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Crocodiles In Vietnam Skinned Alive For World Wide Fashion Industry 

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Crocodiles In Vietnam Skinned Alive For World Wide Fashion Industry 

Disturbing Footages taken from inside several crocodile farms in Vietnam shows the horrific ways in which the animals are skinned alive for luxury fashion goods of the world’s leading fashion brands. (Pics Courtesy / Credits – Peta) The video, filmed in March and April 2016, is part of an investigation into the exotic skin trade conducted by the animal right group People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and provided exclusively to FORBES ahead of its general release. Video courtesy / credits – Peta The confronting images show the…

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Australian Cricket Board Bans Andre Russell’s Black bat

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Australian Cricket Board Bans Andre Russell’s Black bat

Andre Russell’s controversial big black bat has lasted just seven deliveries before being black-banned by Cricket Australia officials. In one of the shortest cameos in cricket history, Russell’s black Spartan bat will have to remain in the kit bag the remainder of the Big Bash League, starting with the Sydney Thunder’s away clash against the Melbourne Renegades on Thursday night. The ultra-cool West Indian, who already has an anti-doping verdict hanging over his head, will now have to resort to a no-frills weapon of choice. Dre Russ caused no fuss…

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Families of missing 43 students lead march in Mexico

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Families of missing 43 students lead march in Mexico

Mexico City, Sep 27: The families of 43 missing Mexican college students led a march of unions, students and other supporters through the capital to demand the young men be found on the second anniversary of their disappearance. Yesterday, the students from the Rural Normal School at Ayotzinapa were in the southern city of Iguala hijacking buses. Local police intercepted them and turned them over to a local drug cartel. The government’s initial investigation decided the students were killed and incinerated in a fire, but international experts have cast doubt…

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Stranger Manhandles Model Gigi Hadid at Milan Fashion Week

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Stranger Manhandles Model Gigi Hadid at Milan Fashion Week

Model Gigi Hadid was manhandled outside a Milan Fashion Week venue Thursday (Sept. 22) by a former Ukrainian television reporter who has pulled similar stunts in Paris, Los Angeles and Moscow. A video posted on website TMZ.comshows a man grabbing Hadid from behind and lifting her off the ground as she and her sister, Bella Hadid, exited the venue of the Max Mara runway show Thursday morning. Hadid reacted angrily, wriggling out of his grip, saying “Let go of me!” followed by expletives. A bodyguard took her arm as she…

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Bollywood Opposes MNS asking Pakistani actors to leave India

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Bollywood Opposes MNS asking Pakistani actors to leave India

Amid tension in the wake of Uri terror attack, the MNS on Friday asked Pakistani artistes like Fawad Khan to leave immediately, failing which their shootings will be stalled.Shalini, who is the general secretary of MNS, told PTI that their Chitrapat wing has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to all the Pakistani actors to leave the country.  “Actors like Mahira Khan (starring Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ‘Raees’) and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” star Fawad Khan are hijacking the opportunities of Indian artistes,” Shalini Thackeray, said in a press conference.She said these two actors…

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