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Porn stars3/7/2023 ![]() Today, that number has more than tripled with over 120,000 searches monthly.Īccording to the fictional detectives in Law and Order, “over 1/3 of traffic on the internet is porn-related.” Turns out, those numbers weren’t too far from the truth. The phrase “Top 10 porn stars” was searched over 33,100 times monthly by users around the world in 2018. It’s no surprise that watching porn is a way of life for many, and now it’s not really even a taboo fact it’s a measurable one. On the other hand, the Post has the evil-crime outrage factor that works so well for tabloid fronts.Sexuality in mainstream media looks a lot different than it did a couple years ago. As much as I think the Cuomo piece is just obliging political theater that is so well-worn at this point that its importance is all sort of abstract, it’s a piece of news more broadly important than the parking-space crime. Not even a pan, or a rave? Usually at least that is needed to put a move review on the cover: DAMON’S STINKER! LIZARD ‘TALE’ DRY AS DUST!There’s also a strip across the top advertising coverage of the 24-hour extension on the collective bargaining agreement talks between N.F.L. Especially considering the display copy, which just reads “MOVIE REVIEWS” in yellow on a red snipe separating stills from the two films. But reviews of the latest Pixar flick “starring” Johnny Depp, and another of Matt Damon in a still from his latest, seem pretty damn cheap. You get some faces and names people know on the front that way, at least. The Oscars are over-so why the sudden interest in post-Oscar movie releases? It looks to me like another version of sticking sports on the cover. The Post today, in almost exactly the same spot on the front, screams “CAR PARK RAGE: Gal beaten into coma over spot.” Apparently a woman was standing in a vacant curbside spot, holding it for her boyfriend who was bringing the car around, and this guy in a van pulled up, told her he wanted the spot, and beat her so severely that she is presently in a coma. ![]() The New York Post: So here is a car-parking story worthy of the front page! You may remember yesterday the News fronted a gotcha tale of an obscure commissioner putting his police placard on his dashboard to score an illegal parking spot in front of N.Y.U. ![]() ![]() Is each day of minor incremental news from Charlie Sheen to be packaged as a story? What precisely is his “latest fiasco"-the fact that he has attracted 1 million Twitter followers? His vow to prove that his ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, also uses drugs? Or the fact that Capri Anderson, the sex-performer who was with Sheen in his Plaza hotel room when he had his epic freakout, has seized the moment to speak to the News with parenting advice for Sheen? (“His kids should be with their mother, without a doubt.”) “CHARLIE’S ANGEL DOES N.Y.” reads the not-too-subtle reference to a stock porn-title convention she’s not ID’d by name, but she’s looking pretty good in this … bustier? Her earrings look like giant dreamcatchers! The bishops have had nice, big, rollicking fights with governors before no Catholic (presumably a big chunk of the audience for the piece) will realize the granular political importance of this rather tame exchange of remarks between Cuomo flack Josh Vlasto and the Conference spokesman who said, “I am sure the governor is very busy, so we will take him at his word.” The dek, though, is nicely written tabloidese: “Cuomo snubs bishops after Vatican slap at live-in gal pal.” Slappy! But somehow as front-page matter this story falls between stools. ![]()
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