LA Daily News Exposes Porn Valley

gonzo · 06-05-2007

As opposed to the NY Times' reasonably sane and balanced coverage of the adult industry lately, the LA Daily News' new week-long "Valley Exposed" series reads more like a lurid tabloid exposé than Serious Journalism, what with all those words like "secret" and "hidden" and "underground" buzzing around the first couple of paragraphs. AVN takes the writers to task for the article's inaccurasies and barely restrained hysteria, and while we in turn take issue with some of AVN's assertions (we think "several years ago" is perfectly acceptable in describing the time frame of Jenna Jameson's stint on the best seller list), we too are getting a little tired of sloppily researched mainstream porn coverage designed more to titillate suburban readerships than shed any real light on the adult industry.

Then again, the series also includes an interesting sidebar on TightFit Productions' Oren Cohen and a (similarly dire yet informative) report today on Sharon Mitchell's Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation and the porn business' HIV concerns. So maybe we'll keep tuning in for the rest of the week after all.

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TheEnforcer · 06-05-2007

Easier to do a hit piece than a real article.

MaskTVMaura · 06-07-2007

I think another issue with mainstream media covering porn is that they don't really have the porn "frame of mind" to take their readers from how they currently think to how we think.

06-05-2007	#1
gonzo Fat Fucking Nobody Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Atlanta,Ga. Posts: 17,795 Blog Entries: 11	LA Daily News Exposes Porn Valley As opposed to the NY Times' reasonably sane and balanced coverage of the adult industry lately, the LA Daily News' new week-long "Valley Exposed" series reads more like a lurid tabloid exposé than Serious Journalism, what with all those words like "secret" and "hidden" and "underground" buzzing around the first couple of paragraphs. AVN takes the writers to task for the article's inaccurasies and barely restrained hysteria, and while we in turn take issue with some of AVN's assertions (we think "several years ago" is perfectly acceptable in describing the time frame of Jenna Jameson's stint on the best seller list), we too are getting a little tired of sloppily researched mainstream porn coverage designed more to titillate suburban readerships than shed any real light on the adult industry. Then again, the series also includes an interesting sidebar on TightFit Productions' Oren Cohen and a (similarly dire yet informative) report today on Sharon Mitchell's Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation and the porn business' HIV concerns. So maybe we'll keep tuning in for the rest of the week after all. Source __________________ We are putting the bastards of this world on notice; greed and corruption will always be met with "a voice made of ink and rage." "Never try and be like anyone else" - Hunter S. Thompson "The truth is the truth no matter how you try and package a lie" - Shellee Hale

06-05-2007	#2
TheEnforcer Scored VIP to Anton's Piss Tank Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,781	Re: LA Daily News Exposes Porn Valley Easier to do a hit piece than a real article.

06-07-2007	#3
MaskTVMaura Come get your medicine... Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 145	Re: LA Daily News Exposes Porn Valley I think another issue with mainstream media covering porn is that they don't really have the porn "frame of mind" to take their readers from how they currently think to how we think. __________________ Maura Ingraham Director / Producer M Squared Productions ICQ: 292 824 444 maura l @ l masktv l dot l com