$5 billion to rescue adult entertainment? Insert puns here.
Daily News staffer Kevin Modesti has reported that adult entertainment tycoons Joe Francis and Larry Flynt want $5 billion of taxpayer money for their industry, in order to stimulate it through hard times. There, I said it.
It seems preposterous if serious, and it's just a publicity grab for this Valley-based industry, right? Still, how exactly does GM claim it has more of a right to taxpayer money than Larry Flynt. One makes some obscenely bad products, while the other makes products that at least pass the obscenity test. It was GM that sold us the Hummer, and which now pledges to be chaster in its future designs if we can save it now.
AIG alone has rifled through our pockets to the tune of $145 billion, beyond all the other bailouts that have been occurring. If Joe Francis and our suffering local adult-entertainment workers want a mere $5 billion more, I'm not altogether sure they're any more unworthy of it than the other folks who are managing to profit off their own losses.
"Porn industry seeks a stimulus package"
"... soft economy ... sagging economy ... Hummer ..."
I always knew the Daily News would turn into a smut rag. Any more bad puns you can write into your "family" newspaper?
No wonder newspapers are dying out so rapidly.
Old School, this is a website, if you haven't noticed. By the way, how many newspapers can you name that have "died out"? They're making cuts, sure, to maximize profits. But name me even three of these "so many" newspapers that have died out.
I sense you're just bitter because most writers don't share your biases.