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Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:45:27 +0000

[...] Whoops. The crackdowns on Craigslist’s sex ads are simply shifting the action to alt weeklies. “Here at Washington City Paper, where few ad categories in recent memory have been the stuff of legend, adult ads in the first week of May were up 38 percent over the same time last year, says Heather McAndrews, the company’s classifieds manager,” quoted in a CP blog. [...]

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By: John Sugg

John Sugg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:42:50 +0000

One of the key problems with the Craigslist -- and alt newspaper -- adult advertising is child prostitution, which uses coded language to make the pitch (I've sat with a detective who called sex ad numbers in Creative Loafing, and the silky voice inquired, "Do you want something, ah, fresh?"). The sex ads are about the only stable advertising in the publications nowadays, and those ads have always included many for illegal services. Many of us in the biz -- I was editor of Creative Loafing's Tampa paper and group senior editor of the company -- winked at the ads, tried to ignore them. But when I did some reports on Atlanta as the No. 1 city in the nation for child prostitution -- and had law enforcement officials tell me how CL was used by the pimps, many of them part of organized crime -- about the only reaction from the business people was to require photo IDs to place the ads, which of course did nothing to deter those who were pimping kids from showing an ID and putting the coded-word ads in the paper. It's worth remembering that the Tampa CL paper in the mid-90s threw out the adult advertising, and the paper did very well, basically because the percentage of women readers skyrocketed when they no longer had to view the paper as hostile territory.

By: Washington City Paper: ‘Will Craigslist’s New Stance on Adult Ads Save Alt-Weeklies?’ | The Political Whore

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:38:57 +0000

[...] article in our Washington City Paper sister pub last week by Andrew Beaujon about how the changes to adult-use ads at Craigslist could [...]

By: Eldakka

Eldakka — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:53:12 +0000

@Barbara Glickstein

People sell stolen goods on 'for sale' classifieds, therefore all 'for sale' classifieds should be banned.

People conduct fraud on real estate classifieds, therefore all real estate classifieds should be banned.

People trade/sell 'pirated' movies/music at swap meets and flea markets, therefore all public notices should be banned and swap meets/flea markets should also be banned.

Human traffickers use cars to transport kidnapped people, therefore all cars should be banned.

Human traffickers lock their victims up in houses to use as sex slaves, therefore all houses should be banned.

See where I am going with this?

By: Craigslist’s Forced Censorship of Erotic Ads Saves Journalism Industry : BeijingToday

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:48:33 +0000

[...] paper reports its own sales of adult ads was up 38 percent in the first week of May as criticism against Craigslist was heating up, compared [...]

By: Technical blogs with pictures and videos » Alternative Weekly Papers See Spike In Adult Ads Following Craigslist Decision

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:10:20 +0000

[...] in again. So… what do you think is happening? Well, reader mikez points to a report noting a sudden and unexpected spike in adult classified ads in alternative weekly papers who had seen their business hit hard as such ads transferred to Craigslist. And, of course, as [...]

By: Fef

Fef — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:45:39 +0000

Maybe you can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a newspaper by its classifieds. If a paper needs to run sex/prostitution ads (errr.... 'erotic services'), then it means they have an audience that wants to pay for those services. And it means the paper doesn't have the readership support from people who object to that type of behavior to refuse accepting payment for such ads.

I look forward to the day the Grey Lady (New York Times) has 50 pages of erotic classifieds.

By: John Dugan

John Dugan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:18:34 +0000

It would be interesting to know what percentage of City Paper and Chicago Reader revenue came from Adult Services during the boom years of the ’90s. Are there any figures available? Play-on-words unintentional.

By: ConstantineBower

ConstantineBower — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:08:42 +0000

Well given that one of the strongest Craigslist competitors, backpage, is owned by the king of alternative print: Village Voice Media…I think that this is a false alarm…as any smart publication should look to the future and go the online route. If anything, the real benefactors of this are online escort classified advertising alternatives like Naughty Reviews, not the various city papers out there…

By: Barbara Glickstein

Barbara Glickstein — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:31:16 +0000

I am a public health nurse and activist to stop human trafficking. What cannot be over looked is that these ads are used by traffickers to sell the services of women and children who are sex slaves - from within the USA and internationally. So your idea that this is saving your local newspapers is an ethical one to consider and discuss.
Barbara Glickstein, RN, MPH MS

See NYC NOW's campaign : The "Trafficking Free NYC!" good business pledge is sent to local publications throughout the five boroughs. It rewards publications that have made a policy to not advertise brothels and it asks New York newspapers, magazines and vendors to recognize the role they play as a potential marketer for the trafficking industry and publicly commit to being "trafficking free" by 2010.

By: Web News Site » Blog Archive » Alternative Weekly Papers See Spike In Adult Ads Following Craigslist Decision

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:47:31 +0000

[...] cave in again. So... what do you think is happening? Well, reader mikez points to a report noting a sudden and unexpected spike in adult classified ads in alternative weekly papers who had seen their business hit hard as such ads transferred to Craigslist. And, of course, as [...]

By: Craigslist’s Escort Censorship Might Save Alt-Weeklies | Tech-monkey.info Blogs

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:37:29 +0000

[...] Wired: [Washington City Paper] reports its own sales of adult ads was up 38 percent in the first week of May… Minneapolis’ City Pages says its adult ad [...]