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> spent money lavishly, including on > prostitutes I do not like what journalism in 2017 looks like.
by peteretep 9y ago
> spent money lavishly, including on
> prostitutes
I do not like what journalism in 2017 looks like.
- andrepd 9y agoHow do you mean? Phrases like that have been a staple of journalism for at least 150 years.
- mschuster91 9y agoAnd that needs to be changed. Sex work needs to be dragged out of that puritan hellhole, and highlighting thhat he spent money on prositutes but not anything else just perpetuates the view of sex work as "bad".
- revelation 9y agoThat is very laudable, but I'm not sure if prostitutes are ever going to qualify for a business expense
- logicchains 9y agoThey might if buying them for one's potential clients instead of for oneself?
- peteretep 9y agoThere is nothing suggesting they were, and as far as I can tell, nothing to justify this information's inclusion in the article.
- ImSkeptical 9y agoThe article also mentioned that he lived in an 11,000 dollar a month apartment. Surely you don't think the article is trying to demonize expensive apartments. I agree that the guy's use of prostitutes isn't relevant to understand the story, however, it adds colour, rightly or wrongly. If the article had said he spent the money sending his kids to private school, or investing in his wife's business, we might think of him as a caring family man. Instead, we get the image of a lavish playboy lifestyle.
- ccrush 9y agoExactly this. Hookers and penthouses just paints a certain image. I don't think it necessarily casts sex work in a bad light. In fact, quite the opposite. Then again, this may be a personal bias.
- peteretep 9y ago> How do you mean? A focus on the salacious rather than the important. > for at least 150 years You seem to consider that a mitigating factor, where I consider it to be an aggravating factor.
- andrepd 9y agoI don't, I consider it aggravating indeed. I read your comment as a "journalism these days" sort of rant, when perhaps you meant it more like "it's 2017 and we're still in this stage of bullshit journalism" kind of thing.