Sex Trade

Where Truth Is Cheap, Lies Bring Big Profits

Where Truth Is Cheap, Lies Bring Big Profits

On the evening of Thursday May 10, 2012, the television news station CNN ran an expose on Backpage that emphasized “how young some of these girls look”. During the course of the program, the cable news channel said out loud what the rest of us had long understood as they deemed the website “ _a hub for the sex trade._” We’ve covered elsewhere Tony Ortega’s unhinged response, striking out with rabid personal attacks against the host of the show, but the story of what was going on behind the scenes has been largely untold… until now.