You can always count on the NY Post to distort the truth to get some really juicy headlines. He is charged with pandering (attempting to pay for sex). Not human trafficking, although it was a human trafficking sting operation.
You’re not wrong. However, I am bound by
- Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
You could use a better source. For example: https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-pentagon-official-stephen-hovanic-arrested-in-human-trafficking-sting
Is “Top Pentagon Official Arrested in Human Trafficking Sting” really that much better of a title?
Not really, but at least it’s not the trash that is the Daily Mail.
Daily beast: the standard of journalism
OP posted a link to the NY Post so I’m not sure what your point is.
It is not a comment on your post, it is only about the NY Post and their sensationalism methods.
Is there a better source? The NY Post is widely regarded as a tabloid.
it kind of looks like he was lonely and tried to pay for sex.
he wasn’t running a human trafficking ring.
garbage reporting
“This kind of operation is really important to us, because, number one, sex buyers are a huge problem in the industry. Without sex buyers, there wouldn’t be a market for the females to continue to be victimized,”
“Second, and probably most importantly for all of us, is the victimization of these females. There’s not a good scenario for them in this lifestyle, so the goal is to get them out of this lifestyle.”
A total of 26 arrests were made, 12 for prostitution, 10 for pandering, and four for pimping.
So they’re ‘saving these women’ by arresting them and ‘getting them out of their lifestyle’ by making their source of income less lucrative? Once they get out of jail what exactly has improved in their life?
This guy seems like a sleazeball but they’re burying the lede here.
