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Both ABC and NBC had reporters follow up on the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal. NBC's Mike Taibbi profiled David Paterson, Spitzer's successor, a blind African-American. Taibbi called it "a good line" when Paterson was asked if he had ever consorted with prostitutes: "Only the lobbyists." On ABC, Jim Avila (no link) took A Closer Look at Ashley Dupre, the call girl who entertained Spitzer. Dupre's story was that she had been "homeless and broke at one point, abused at her New Jersey home, a runaway at seventeen, heading to Manhattan for show business but ending on the seedy side." Avila quoted statistics that showed prostitution to be "not just the world's oldest profession,,,but the most dangerous one." He claimed, vaguely, that the 100,000 prostitutes working full time in the sex industry nationwide are "18 times more likely to be murdered on the job"--but offered no attribution for that startling statistic, nor did he tell us what that murder rate was being compared with.
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