"Mike" a source for a Philly Channel NBC story about porn www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=22538 writes to Philadelphia Weekly:
I told them [NBC] it took me about three minutes to find the owner and location of escorts.com-I think they added "1/2 hour" to make it look like it actually took me some work since their crack team couldn't find chicken on a chinese menu.
First off, their research was so stupendous that they failed to google "philadelphia porn", which clearly shows that 6abc had a similar story a year earlier. Additionally, no one in their "investigative" team seemed to know that you could look up corporate records to find a business owner, or that you can look up addresses to find property owners. To help them out further, I'd suggest that they tie their shoes before the walk.
Secondly, the story was to be about helping a woman who was being charged for unsolicited pornographic text messages that were promoting escorts.com. I gave them information which proved that verizon-who was charging the lady getting pornographic text messages, is also profiting from escorts.com by providing corporate internet server services to the company-which plainly violates their own Verizon Business terms of service. This is the job of the investigators-to provide suitable answers for consumers so that they can get solutions. With this information they could of gone back to verizon and formally complained to get her money back, and several others wouldn't be subjected to verizon's double dipping; instead, they do a b.s. fluff piece stating that a porn star is from new jersey-wow, I'm shocked.
I also provided nbc with statutes which show that national's business is in violation of philadelphia's obscenity laws. I showed her the law that makes unsolicited pornographic text messaging illegal. I showed them that national doesn't just own a porno company, but also telecommunications companies. I really don't care what national does, but luann's quote in her own story is "none of this is illegal". NBC10 further show their own ineptitude by showing in one line that the owner of escorts.com said "we never, ever would something like this" only to say a breath later "We do get a commission but it's not much". So they don't have anything to do with it, but make a commission; meanwhile, they have nothing to do with it, yet they own over 3000 domains, one of which just happens to be escorts.com?
They couldn't even get Tommy Gunn's philadelphia connection correct, which is rather interesting-he's the guy who designed "the cave", a popular ladies' club.
