…but it’s amusing to have my name in the same para as Rupert Murdoch, for whatever that’s worth. I stumbled across an article in Teh Chronic last night using *me* as the example of porn in US mainstream media. Snip:
For the Sun of London, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch and edited by a woman (Rebekah Wade) who supports the Page 3 format, images of sexually provocative models certainly sell papers. But public depictions of nudes are more acceptable in Britain than in the United States. The Sun’s approach might never work in America, but Ponce de Leon envisions a day — perhaps in the next few years — when U.S. newspapers regularly report and comment on pornography, which generates $12 billion a year in revenue in this country. The most explicit stories might only appear on a paper’s Web site, not in print, he said, but their presence would be publicized to the paper’s wider readership. In September, SFGate.com hired a sex columnist, Violet Blue, whose work is available only online.
“That’s the direction the culture is moving in,” Ponce de Leon said. “The diffusion and decentralization of sources of information will make (papers’ coverage of pornography) inevitable, just as it will be inevitable that varieties of pornography for every taste will be piped into homes through video-on-demand. There’ll be packages (of pornography) just like there are in sports. That’s not to say that people won’t be upset. They will. But that’s the direction the culture is clearly moving in.”
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