A picture can a tell a lot, especially if it’s accompanying a news report. There was Economic Times a week ago that decided to use an image of a “highly unrealistic stereotype of a lusty teacher” with a report on Unilever deciding to drop sexist stereotypes. This week it’s DailyO. Women are no longer “a mere showpiece” in the bedroom and the kitchen, they tell us, but if their own choice of imagery is any indication, the trend continues unabated on news websites.

Thanks to Google’s all-seeing eye, we were able to identify this upper torso as that belonging to one Sunny Leone. The original image shows Leone in profile. DailyO, though, decided (most of) her face was unnecessary and focussed on the image, clavicle-downwards. Maybe it struck them that it was a bit arbit to use the happily-married Leone’s face to illustrate an article on women committing adultery. Then again, cropping it to highlight her cleavage doesn’t make much sense anyway. Not to mention how it takes away from the point the blurb seems to be making – that women are no longer showpieces.

Speaking of distracting and unrelated cleavages, we found these two ads, one above the other, while browsing a piece onJantaKaReporter:

This is probably a Google ad and is sometimes tailored to what you’re browsing – we swear we weren’t looking for an older lady in our neighbourhood. But Google allows you to opt out of “sensitive ads”. We suggest you do that JantaKaReporter — it will lend more gravitas to your honest journalism pitch.