NY Times Journalist Takes LA Weekly Parent Company to Task for Aiding Sex Traffickers
Nicholas Kristof is something of an expert on sex trafficking. The Pulitzer Prize journalist has covered the issue extensively in both his reporting and his book Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide. So his criticism of Village Voice Media for aiding human traffickers through their Backpage.com sex ads has a special resonance.
In his latest column for the New York Times, Kristof writes of the Backpage.com sex ads:
It is a godsend to pimps, allowing customers to order a girl online as if she were a pizza.
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