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Certainly promises to be an interesting read

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by SF_Express, Aug 4, 2006.

  1. SF_Express

    SF_Express Active Member

    Bet it's getting a lot of reaction in L.A. today.
     
  2. Trey Beamon

    Trey Beamon Active Member

    Great read. After that, there's no denying Joe Francis is a scumbag...

    I feel terrible for the young girls being exploited, but then again, no one's forcing vodka down their throats or ripping their clothes off. There has to be some personal accountability here. If you're old enough to be featured in "Girls Gone Wild," you're old enough to make smart choices.
     
  3. DyePack

    DyePack New Member

    I like the First Timers video commercial better.

    "This is mah first time!" Right, baby. Maybe 5 or 6 years ago.
     
  4. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    pretty awful...

    doesn't that one girl have a case against someone, i mean, she said she's 18, yet someone had to be providing her alcohol
     
  5. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    There is a special place in hell for Joe Francis.

    And a special place in my heart for Claire Hoffman. Great story, both the writing and reporting.
     
  6. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    There was a GGW infopornmercial on last night and it showed a girl disrobing... You could see she was nervous but also tell she tried not to let it show. That and she had a wee bit too much to drink. And I kept thinking about the article.
    I have come to the conclusion that no one needs to suffer a long, slow, painful social disease in solitude more than that bottom feeder...
     
  7. tyler durden 71351

    tyler durden 71351 Active Member

    No matter how good his lawyers are, I can't believe he hasn't gotten his ass handed to him in court. I mean, 90% of these young women are probably drunk or high when they signed a release. Couldn't a lawyer argue that the decision to appear in "Girls Gone Wild" was made when a woman was impaired?
    It seems to me that one day, he's going to end up in a courtroom in a fairly conservative jurisdiction and the jury will see a case of a local girl who got a little too drunk vs. a scumbag from Hollywood.
     
  8. Gold

    Gold Active Member

    An assault claim needs to be filed against this guy for grabbing this reporter. This is a matter which should concern all of us.
     
  9. blandcanyon

    blandcanyon Guest

    How has some father or boyfriend or just belligerent yahoo not decked him in general? He seems like one of those guys who is inviting a quality asskicking.
    But that was a good story. It would be cool for her to press charges or sue, but it probably won't happen. Somebody will soon enough, you can bet.
     
  10. ChrisLittmann

    ChrisLittmann Member

    What an unbelievable creep.
    It's the American way that a rich asshole like this isn't in jail though.
     
  11. lono

    lono Active Member

    He did have to jam a dildo up his own ass at gunpoint - not quite Starman Justice, but a start.

    Methinks he will come to an evil end.

    The story was brilliant, though.
     
  12. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    The comparisons to Hugh Hefner were made in the story, but I think Larry Flynt might be a better one.
     
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