The traditional media is giving us a schooling today on how to completely exploit a young woman — and the free content she’s created on her MySpace page — for fun and profit.
The 22-year old high-priced escort at the center of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal wants to be called Ashley Alexandra Dupre. That’s her pop star name. Her escort name was Kristen, who was described in court papers as a “Petite, very pretty brunette.”
Immediately after her “real” name was released by the courts, mainstream media mainstays like the New York Times, CNN, and of course FoxNews — who so often laugh off sites like MySpace as ‘illegitimate media,’ — were using her MySpace page to earn themselves millions. The Times was first on the case, publishing three photos of her culled free of charge from her MySpace page. CNN did them one better, quoting at length from her blog posts as if they had actually interviewed her.
CNN’s headline read:
“Spitzer’s Escort: ‘I love who I am’”
Then their whole front page article ripped quotes out of her blogs, and used her “About Me” section to psychoanalyze the young girl. They even doctored a quote from her, which originally read: “It all started when I moved in with a musician during my Odyssey to New York.”
CNN thought it would be better if they said she was on “an ‘Odyssey’ of degrading abuse and high aspirations.” They are, of course, talking about her admitted “drug abuse” and the fact that she left home when she was 17. But things seem to be going very well for her — she makes a very good living doing something that she enjoys, interacting privately with other consenting adults, and she has time to work on her ultimate goal of becoming a singer.
We won’t get into a whole thing here about whether prostitution should be illegal (it shouldn’t), or whether it’s moral or not (that’s subjective) — my point here is that CNN is dramatizing and sensationalizing non-comments from this person regarding subjects they didn’t even do the work to ask her about themselves.
(And for what it’s worth, her songs aren’t that bad. They’re the standard kind of pop/hip-hop songs you hear all over the radio, and by that definition, it’s bad — but her voice is decent.)
All the articles contain at least a trace of tut-tutting about this poor girl’s “degradation” and exploitative lifestyle. But none of them seem to conceptualize their own exploitation of the MySpace service and the personal nature that users see their content as being. It’s certainly public information — and, according to contract, “owned” by MySpace.com — but that doesn’t change how creepy it is that the media would raid her page for some tabloid-style gossip.
I’m sure her page is flooded now that CNN has “interviewed” it and left it for dead. She’s getting all kinds of comments, mostly positive, such as “All this pressure is going to turn you into a diamond.” Who says she isn’t already?
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looking good keep ur head up brush the haters off… get that money and fuck the rest …
This is just great, a nation who now sympathizes and supports a whore. Her “job” is illegal. She is paid to have sex with a man who just happened to be married and be the governor of NY!
I don’t think that this blog is “a nation,” and I certainly don’t think there’s any reason to call the girls names or suggest that she doesn’t deserve sympathy.
I’m sure she made more money and was more successful at her clandestine occupation than you will ever be, RG. This used to be a nation that celebrated freedom. Now we turn outlaw some of our most successful citizens because people like you crow the loudest about what you believe is “moral” and correct. Just ask Heidi Fleiss or the girls of the Moonlight Bunny Ranch if they think their jobs are degrading. They’ll school you on freedom like you’ve never dreamed of hearing from your conservative politicians.
And for the record, this blog appears to be about media exploitation and hypocrisy, not “feel bad for the prostitute.” (even though we should).
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