I'm kind of using "media" in the loose sense here since I don't know if it's the fashion industry, Hollywood, or someone else who's promoting this, but have a look at the pathetic waifs in the following photos (click article continuation link). These models look utterly unnourished. Some of them are like skeletons. Is this what we've come to? This is beyond promoting an unrealistic view of "slim". I am reminded of the Renaissance when plump women were considered desirable because they had been well-fed.
P.S. Let me add a disclaimer: I do not know the source of these photos, so journalistically, they are dubious. As a reader pointed out in the comments we don't know they weren't photoshopped. It would be quite a trick but I'm sure it's possible. If they are fakes, obviously someone faked them for a reason: to make a social commentary on the trend in fashion models, and it's a valid commentary.
Are you sure those are not photo manipulation. Some of them look a little too much.
Some of these (#4, #6) have pretty obvious artifacts of manipulation.
By way of comparison, see these worth1000 contest pages.
On the other hand, this was real.