CTV Toronto News Clip - Toronto Police Special Victims Section

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CTV Toronto (Tamara Cherry) reported on the activities of the Special Victims Section of the Toronto Police Sex Crimes Unit, 7 Feb 2011. This five-officer section of the Toronto Police Service seeks to protect sex workers. The cameras followed the Unit for one afternoon, in which they pose as clients in order to set up appointments with four escorts.

 

The officers claim that "ten out of ten" of the escorts they deal with work for pimps, despite the denials of the escorts themselves. "By contacting the workers, they hope to nab their pimps. But it isn't easy ... a good day is when they can get a girl to sign a statement against her pimp. But today isn't one of those days."

 

The five-minute news video:

 

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110207/main-sexworkers-toronto-story-110207/20110207/?hub=TorontoNewHome

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Quote: "Four dates 20, 21, 22 and 24, but how old are they really?"

 

"...Date 1 is 45 ....date 2 looks young, too young .... date 4 is in her 40's......"

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This is EVERYTHING I hate about the media and EVERYTHING I Hate about stereotyping!! Just Disgusting! I thought we were past this!

 

First the police officer should be reprimanded - talking loud and slow the the asian lady!!

 

Second... they did not find anyone underage

 

Third... they did not find any pimps.

 

... she is just making some outlandish statement that they must be lying and they are all controlled by pimps! What kind of news report was this?! The police calling ads listed as 19-24 trying to find underage girls (Notice it's craigs list they were shown calling from). You can bet that if they had someone underage that would have made the news WAY before any 40 year old bait'd in for a 19 year old would have! Where is the investigative reporting showing the pimps? Why did this even make the air!?!?!? Anyone else MAD about this?!?

 

We should be all writing complaints to CTV and the Toronto Police Department. This is just disgusting! This is NOT news and it's NOT investigative reporting. CNN is credited for exposing underage girls on craigslist and now the other networks are trying to piggyback on that.

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These guys would fuckup the lord's prayer.. They never ever get things right. Its all about getting a 2 min soundbyte, and selacious headline titles. The media and politics go hand in hand.. You will see a politician use something like this as a platform simply to outrage public views and to get votes.. Horseshit and gravy.. That's what I say.

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This is CTV news. Strike one; they aren't known for politically unbiased reports, even in a frequently politically biased media landscape.

 

Next, how many of you fail to recognize the hallmarks of Conservative political action here? The gov't is appealing the court decision regarding prostitution. Just like any other campaign, the Conservative are going to use the media to soften people up for their message and provoke public sentiment in their favour. There will be more of this before the official appeal is tried.

 

The average Canadian uncritically accepts what they are told. Here they're being told "we need to save women from being pimped, and stop underage prostitution, the only two sorts there are. " And they'll swallow it, hook line and sinker.

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I think the better question is not why the media is full of such reprehensible reporting, so much as why has the publics interest shifted away from well balanced reporting to wanting glamour stories?

 

I sit back and ponder the last number of decades. Even someone as young as I can clearly recall news in the past focused on world events, finance, etc. Clearly some publications still exist that cover these things; however, I think the majority of publications now are catering to following celebrities, covering topics such as these, biased and/or uneducated views.

 

The majority of north american society is clearly eating this up. Money is there to be made on it. Why, I don't know.

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Because we live in a lazy and escapist society. People don't want difficult or thought provoking, they want easy to swallow cognitive anesthesia. Just look at how much reality TV drivel there is out there compared to well written drama.

 

And I'm not so convinced about the media being anti-Conservative. CTV was never balked from an opportunity to present a skewed piece (just look at the release of the off air bloopers during the Dion interview during the last election). Media in Canada is owned by a small number of individuals, and those individuals have ideology as well. I've styles propaganda at the university level and the current example of CTVs bias is a textbook example.

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Cops need to justify their existence in those matters - and add importance. e.g. when the bust a grow-op, they will say "80 plants worth 80,000 dollars. $1000bucks from a plant, only in cops world. Same here, they need to color the picture, particularly that police need some PR in the stink of Ottawa Police holding cell stuff.