When those who like to bash OC Weekly bash OC Weekly, they often cite our adult advertising, print covers featuring shapely young women and online slideshows of barely clad porn stars/roller girls/burlesque performers.
Guilty as charged, yer honor!
But we're obviously not the only local newspaper giving readers what they obviously want–at least online.
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Traipsing by the Orange County Register's “In Your Face” plastic surgery blog earlier today, a corner of my eye caught a box identifying the top 5 slideshows on ocregister.com from the past two weeks.
Here is the list with hints that are NSFWDOWYW*. Go here for the Register version.
A shot of pro tennis player Simona Halep–from a different but no less gravity-defying angle, is used in the “Last 2 Weeks' Top Slide Shows” box to tease the No. 1 entry, “Female Athletes vs. Big Breasts.”
“Compare Raquel Welch in Her 20s and 60s“
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“Is Angelina [Jolie] Really Looking Older?“
“Why Lindsay Lohan is Aging Fast“
“3 Decades of Catherine Zeta-Jones”
Betcha thought I'd run Cathy's Allure cover!
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.