CNN: Selling the Girl Next Door

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Interesting but abundantly slanted one hour investigative report tonight about illegal prostitution and underage trafficking on CNN tonight. Clearly produced pre-CL closure, and they seem to take credit for it. No idea if credit is deserved.

 

Personally, I feel that they muddy the real issue of underage trafficking by using it to imply that all aspects of the adult industry are responsible for it.

 

Most inappropriate advertising of all time? A show about underage sex trafficking interrupted by advertisements for Viagra and arthritis meds. Seriously.

[slimdaddy 100]

i watched that too and they could have done a better job. there documentary wasn't that great and not as great as the other special that came before them.

[Guest c17mover]

I watched it and I found they over used the I-Pad in the show forgot that I was watching a documentary instead it seemed like a demo of that product. The music etc made it very biased. However I think the point made about the flagrant abuses by some in reference to the underage issues made a point.

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According to my TV guide, it's on Saturday the 29th at 8pm and again at 11pm, and then Sunday the 30th at 2am.

 

Additional Comments:

Links to CNN about this:

 

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/18/cnn%E2%80%99s-amber-lyon-investigates-teen-trafficking-in-america/

 

and

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/23/siu.selling.girl.next.door.judge/index.html

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I think what annoyed me the most was the overdone and gratuitous show of making faces and retching when she was answering the phone, and so on. That, and the fact that the equated the use of "sweet" and "innocent" in ads to mean "underage".

Simply too many exaggerations and conclusions being jumped to.

 

I fully agree, though, that the abuse and underage pimping is terrible and should be stopped.