Here’s some amusing outrage over an upcoming Fox reality show in which a swimsuit model hosts a local newscast in Texas:

“One of the last sacred grounds of integrity in local television is the local newsroom, so I guess I would say I’m disappointed to see a station, much less one in our own community, that has evidently sold its integrity,” said Brad Streit, vp and GM for KLTV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Tyler.

Yes, local news is “[o]ne of the last sacred grounds of integrity in local television” — if by “integrity” you mean exploiting fears of crime and running “video news releases” produced by corporations and the government as original content. Using the local news as a platform for a network reality show is just one more step down the road to oblivion.