Do you work for the Houston Press?

And do a little research of your own- the Worst of is a yearly list of local’s opinions on the state of the city, which should be obvious to the reader. Maybe you missed the WORST CASE OF DIARRHEA entry, which to some may be hard-hitting journalism, but it’s actually just another shitty writer’s opinion.

Not only should this article have been a full-length feature meriting much more space, it also deserved a much more eloquent and serious writer, committed to truly investigating the issues on which she writes. This writer feels interested in this problem in a very surface way, as if sex trafficking were a hot new band or a bar topic she can sound the most informed about until everyone moves on to a new subject or a new trend. She even admits to being interested in sex trafficking in the most surface way, looking for “what’s going down” in the Houston Press. She writes at a fifth grade level, her most valuable insight being, “…there is no debating that this shit is just fucked up.” Oh really, invaluable journalist with startling insights about contemporary sextrade in our society?

Free Press, hire real writers to write your articles. There are plenty of writers graduating from the University of Houston, Rice, and St. Thomas that could string together a first paragraph that would have avoided using “refused” and “forced” over and over, who know the difference between “resolved of all responsibility” (?) and “absolved of all responsibility,” and would have devoted at least a month of research (outside of Google) to a worthy subject. Someone who knows how to use the power and beauty of the English language would be a start; a person with enough character to address the issue with respect would be even better.

This article done right: http://www.texasmonthly.com/2010-04-01/feature3.html

You have no idea what you are talking about!

Please please admin, Nick and the writers of the anti Israel or anti Jew sections please look up the word “apartheid”.

What an interesting way to put such hateful comments in an article.

Thanks Viking for your comments

Those invoking principles of balance (ie. “both sides do bad things”) often fail to take into account the more fundamental imbalances. It is, of course, not only the difference in travel expense budgets that is significant when exploring imbalance. We must also consider the imbalance in civilians killed, children killed, right to legal resources, illegal nukes, access to clean water, ability to leave to travel or emigrate, shock and awe retaliations, etc.

The conclusion is inescapable and indistinguishable from our own history in the U.S.: ’separate but equal’ is a smokescreen for separate and unequal. Those who use “you’re not being balanced” as a criticism of those voicing criticisms of Israel must use the same standard of balance to criticize Israel’s disproportionate history of misconduct.

IF YOU WERE FAIR AND BALANCED YOU WOULD SAY PALESTINIANS ARE BAD (TOO)…in this article about the mayor\\\’s trip to Israel, bought and paid for by the American Jewish Committee.

That\\\’s what \\"objective\\" means. You have to give \\"both\\" sides of the story, even if that means interjecting irrelevant details, even if that means excluding anything that might suggest that there are more than two sides to any given issue.

Get it? Carry on.