Fleshbot reports:
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.
I know that Fleshbot spends most of its space linking to masturbation fodder. I don’t know exactly how that qualifies them to know anything about the workings of the porn industry. If they think that the Daily News series is tabloid because it uses words such as "underground," then Fleshbot doesn’t know much about the tabloid style. The Daily News series includes almost no salacious disclosures. I was disappointed that it broke so little new ground.
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