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Five Alternatives For the New ‘Bleep Photo’ Revolutionizing TV Censorship

6:50AM STV | A momentous trend apparently began last week in the least likely of places: The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, where the hosts introduced a new “Bleep Photo” feature for particularly saucy and immodest guests. The test drive came Aug. 13 when, while interviewing a pair of women about their ambivalence toward binge-drinking, producers cut out of nowhere to a photograph of a cat eating spaghetti. It was a Random TV Moment For the Ages, rivaling David Letterman’s greatest for sheer “WTF”-ness and cultural import. The blip has since been parsed in a variety of formats including FishBowl LA, where it was discovered Monday that the cutaway was merely a “Bleep Photo” to override one of the women’s descriptions of being “fucked up.” More »

Vanilla Ice’s Domestic Battery Arrest Reminds Local News Anchor of a Song

4:20AM Defamer Hollywood | Nothing gets us in the mood for a jam like a has-been pop icon arrested for domestic battery — a sentiment to which KTLA morning staffer Jessica Holmes stylishly related this morning. Barely finished with her report of Vanilla Ice’s jailing in Florida on charges of kicking and hitting his wife, the bubbly entertainmentard summoned a trio of back-up “dancers” for an impromptu run through “Ice Ice Baby.” Reaction in the newsroom was mixed, with a vigorous defence from seasoned veterans who recalled the time Walter Cronkite and a young Dan Rather punctuated revelations of Ike Turner’s domestic abuse with a loosely harmonized performance of “You Should’a Treated Me Right.” Skin-crawling video after the jump. More »