Naked news

What a fantastic idea to make news more watchable. A striptease news show with sign language for hearing-impaired viewers. Even better, the Japanese government was subsidising it... until it got cold feet!

Reuters reports that:

The funding dried up when the government, under fire for supporting "Naked Sign Language News," changed funding guidelines for programming aimed at the disabled to exclude pornography, local media reported.

"Of course we will continue making the program," said Shinichiro Fukuyama, a spokesman for makers Paradise Television. "We weren't doing it for the subsidy, we just wanted to make something viewers would enjoy."

All I can say is, what a marvellously apt surname...