[LINK] "Fox News affiliate blurs breasts in record-setting Picasso painting"

[rfmcdonald]

Art deserves to be seen. Also, priorities. From the CBC:

After selling at auction for a record-setting $179.4 million US this week, Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version O) is now the world's most expensive painting.

Its monetary value and historical significance can't change the fact that it contains naked women, however — and for one Fox News affiliate, Picasso's cubist boobs are simply too hot for TV.

Fox 5 News in New York City is coming under fire this week for blurring the breasts in Picasso's masterpiece in a TV segment about its sale.

"We decided to blur the nude portions so that we could show it to you on air," said anchor Dari Alexander before running the piece during Monday's 10 p.m. broadcast according to Mediate.

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"Fox News blurs out breasts in Picasso painting... But they'll show a hostage murder," wrote Twitter user @jlkopfLNP, referring to Fox's decision earlier this year to post a video released by ISIS showing the burning of a Jordanian pilot being held hostage.