• L.A. Times, Friday, September 7, 2012 10:43 AM

On the same day that Fox News reported publishing heir Victoria Hearst has joined the fight to have her family’s Cosmopolitan brown-bagged in retail outlets because it’s “pornographic,” the magazine announced a new fashion product line to be sold at 600+ JC Penney stores – which L.A. Times writer Tiffany Hsu notes are “often associated with dowdiness.”  Hsu says the products -- including “leopard-print panties, satiny robes and nighties and snakeskin-patterned clutches” -- were created in tandem by JC Penney design teams and Cosmo’s editorial team. Presumably, newly appointed Cosmo editor Joanna Coles wasn’t involved.

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