KYTX-TV, a Tyler, Texas CBS affiliate has come up with an inventive way to increase their ratings. They are doing a reality TV show that deals with turning a bikini model into an anchorwoman. The show, entitled ‘Anchorwoman’ oddly enough, will begin airing in late August.

The show will follow Lauren Jones’ every move as she learns the ropes and transforms from bikini model to news anchor. Whether or not it’s a successful transformation is the point of the show.

The station has come under attack for selling out and undermining the integrity of the news industry by using a beautiful woman with no journalism experience whatsoever to do the news. These attacks are made with straight faces too. As if beautiful people (male and female) reading news is an unheard of concept. A few examples. here, There’s even a list where you can vote on which news anchor you think is sexiest.

Suppose she ends up not only raising the ratings of KYTX-TV but doing a good job of reading the teleprompters. Even worse, what if she does just as good or better a job of it as those who make millions for their reading teleprompter skills. OH MY!

That is what they are really afraid of.

Lauren Jones is an actress and magazine cover model. Jones, a Miss New York USA beauty queen finalist, Homecoming Queen and Cheerleader, appeared on the soap opera Guiding Light and in the June 2005 issue of Maxim magazine. Lauren has been seen in Fortune, Dubb, Sync, and Men’s Health magazines, as well as on the covers of Sound and Vision and extreme sports magazine, AXL. She also has appeared as a WWE Diva. She has also recently joined the sexy team of Barker’s Beauties on The Price is Right.

I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more of Lauren Jones.

More photos of Lauren Jones …

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