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How the NYT Got One Escort's Story Wrong

RebeccaEuryale — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:59:35 EDT

@lefty:
Comment on How the NYT Got One Escort's Story Wrong It's after midnight and "Chill Slut" is still funny.

RebeccaEuryale

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vulturesquadron — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:39:07 EDT

@City_Dater: Unless they are pretty Korean girls.

vulturesquadron

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fannypackantics — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:25:53 EDT

we think we spotted a few of the sex workers crossing the Brooklyn Bridge -- they look like divorced mail order brides.

[fannypackantics.com]

fannypackantics

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Melissa Gira Grant — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:03:53 EDT

Rock on, Sheila!

To the NYT reporter's credit, he tried to make a few corrections after the fact. But to Bound, Not Gagged's credit, we got him to fess up to his errors. Not bad for a bunch of blogging whores. (Which is not referring to who Denton hires, myself incl.)

Melissa Gira Grant

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ronbo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:40:25 EDT

@Ha Ha Sound: Don't hookers prefer In-N-Out?

ronbo

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hypocriteoath — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:07:32 EDT

@City_Dater: in one sense or another, yes.

hypocriteoath

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City_Dater — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:00:32 EDT

@SeaBassTian:

If these women are under 40, wearing Louboutins (and you don't recognize them as celebrities or trophy wives) than they probably are!

City_Dater

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SeaBassTian — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:53:29 EDT

I have noticed 3 separate women wearing the black and red pumps in the thumbnail. Now, I will be forced to assume every lady wearing these shoes is a hipster prostitute!

SeaBassTian

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cassandra — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:43:24 EDT

It's just surprising that the NYT wrote a story that's true.

I like how she's the only person in the world who likes NPR and has student loans. Or maybe it's the blue eyes that gave her away.

cassandra

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collegecallgirl — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:37:19 EDT

@CodePink: I didn't, but I'm a slutty whore.

collegecallgirl

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vulturesquadron — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:37:18 EDT

NPR addict = heavy nose breather.

vulturesquadron

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nyobserver — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:36:54 EDT

I kinda want to meet her. Is that bad?

nyobserver

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BettyCrocker — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:36:44 EDT

Ok. I see the word "hipster" and I think "three days past a shower". This is not a good trait for a hooker to have. Clean catbags sell.

I think a hipster catbag would have to be seriously discounted.

BettyCrocker

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punchyourself — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:31:30 EDT

there used to be, in greenpoint, back in the heady days of 1996 - 2000 a sort of hipster brothel run by a hipster madam full of hipster hoes where socially awkward hipster dudes could go get their hipster fuck on, but first they had to pay some of that hipster cash their hipster parents deposited in their hipster Chemical Bank accounts each month. twas on Franklin ...

punchyourself

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hypocriteoath — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:31:08 EDT

@dogisdead: self-righteous hipster hooker? she wears it well.

hypocriteoath

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dogisdead — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:25:51 EDT

@hypocriteoath: Shopping at Key Foods and being an Opie & Anthony addict didn't scream "intellectual hooker", so she went another route...

dogisdead

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BitchSetMeUp — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:25:03 EDT

Student loans? OMG - I totally know this girl!

BitchSetMeUp

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CodePink — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:24:19 EDT

Okay, everyone laughed at Lefty's comment. Oh WELLZ. Pink was being sensitive. Congratulations, Lefty.

CodePink

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Calitri — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:23:17 EDT

@scroll_lock: and crickets aren't very snarky, at least not the ones I know.

@karion: Are the two mutually exclusive? Is not a whore inherently slutty?

Calitri

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miss_msry — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:20:35 EDT

Sometimes fluffiness hurts.

miss_msry

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hypocriteoath — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:15:15 EDT

but she's not contradicting the assertion that she's a hipster in W-burg, right? phew.

hypocriteoath

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drugman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:15:01 EDT

@drugman: Grr...satire, right.

drugman

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drugman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:13:27 EDT

@KimGordonsPanties: Really? I feel like I missed a few classes in middle-school, or something. Very sinn and bedeutung of you.

drugman

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billybobnyc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:13:13 EDT

I agree with her in that it was a fluff piece. What gets me about this whole things is that before before DuprA's id was revealed, many of the stories were about how THESE types of call girls were elegant and cultured and educated and really just like a New York socialite. The media perpetuated this.
Then BAM, there's DuprA on her myspace page looking like the skank she is.

billybobnyc

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karion — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:11:51 EDT

@lefty:
Not to be pedantic, but I think she is a whore, not a slut. Still, I laughed.

karion

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DonLaFontaine — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:11:45 EDT

Brings new meaning to the phrase "fluff piece" ...

DonLaFontaine

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Nic Fit — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:10:20 EDT

So the reporter published too many details which could identify her, but got some of the details wrong which is bad somehow? Not sure I follow...

Nic Fit

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ratherbesleeping — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:08:55 EDT

@lefty: I'm not going to lie, I laughed too.

ratherbesleeping

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GregorMendel — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:02:21 EDT

I'm too lost to comment.

GregorMendel

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winniemc — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:01:19 EDT

Maybe she should just write a screenplay about teen pregnancy and be done with it. No one's ever gonna understand her sex workiness until she's famous.

winniemc

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dogisdead — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:59:43 EDT

I mean, in the end, this piece was still for the NY Times. It was not some filmmaker doing a documentary about sex-workers wherein there would be an opportunity to remain unbias toward the issue. This WAS a fluff piece. I mean, there's nothing I relish more than riding the F train to work, egg sandwich in one hand, sex-worker story in another.

dogisdead

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scroll_lock — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:58:07 EDT

@the supergoddess: It was the unexpectedness factor that made it funny. If we all start getting executed for not saying nice things, the sound of crickets shall reign.

scroll_lock

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punchyourself — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:56:22 EDT

@CodePink: chill, narc

punchyourself

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if_i_only_had_a_heart — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:56:22 EDT

hooker hot

if_i_only_had_a_heart

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the supergoddess — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:53:27 EDT

@CodePink: oh no! I thought it was sorta funny! do I have to die too?

the supergoddess

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punchyourself — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:53:26 EDT

yeah the ny times has a knack for forgetting silly things like "off the record" and other paper of record type of details when dealing with people they think won't make a big deal out of it. like hookers.

punchyourself

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Ha Ha Sound — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:52:38 EDT

I read that article. I was disappointed that nowhere did the author ask his subject about spherical coordinate systems, the state of the Israel/Palestine crisis or whether Sonic is better than Arby's.

Ha Ha Sound

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the supergoddess — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:51:27 EDT

@lefty: oh god, I know I shouldn't laugh but...

the supergoddess

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CodePink — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:51:23 EDT

@lefty: Hmm. Then that's still not very nice and you grossed me out. Executioner? Some assistance?

CodePink

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lefty — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:50:42 EDT

Aw come on, I meant that in the nicest possible way.

lefty

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CodePink — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:48:44 EDT

@lefty: Ew!

CodePink

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Kim Gordon's Panties — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:48:36 EDT

I'm with her. That journalist is a total asshole for assuming she's bisexual just because she sleeps with members of both sexes. Typical small-minded NYT thinking.

Kim Gordon's Panties

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lefty — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:46:29 EDT

Chill, slut.

lefty

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vibe-rater — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:45:31 EDT

That is one servicey sex worker

vibe-rater