tmz.com - 1/7/2009
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Filed under: Celebrity Justice Joe Francis and Larry Flynt claim the economy has made America's sexual appetite go limp, so they're going to the one place where sex is always rampant -- Congress.Flynt (the "Hustler" guy) and Francis (the "Girls Gone Wild" dude) are asking the... Permalink >
forbes.com - 1/7/2009
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forbes.com —
Management & Trends How Big Is Porn? Dan
Ackman , 05.25.01, 1:45 PM ET NEW YORK -...
Recently, much attention has been lavished on the pornography industry--as a business--and many have claimed it is large and profitable, especially on the Internet. Many ...
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How Big Is Porn?
nydailynews.com - 1/7/2009
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nydailynews.com —
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, January 7th 2009,
5:18 PM Is the porn industry up next for...
a bailout? If porn titans Joe Francis and Larry Flynt have anything to do with it, it will. Yes, ladies and gentleman, the titans of pornography are ...
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Porn kings Larry Flint and Joe Francis go begging for a ...
dontgomovement.com - 1/8/2009
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dontgomovement.com —
Things are tough all over! First banks, then
auto-makers and now the adult-oriented business segment is getting...
screwed over by recent financial woes. So much so Fox Business is reporting Hustler’s Larry [...]
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This PORN bailout talk needs a slogan…
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Porn Bailout: Larry Flynt, Joe Francis Seeking Government Money
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn recession proof?" According to porn magnate Larry Flynt and "Girls Gone Wild" king Joe Francis, the answer is no.
TMZ reports that the pornographer pair is heading to Washington to ask for a $5 billion porn bailout:
"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt says. "It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America."
Francis sees his industry like the big three automakers, only BIGGER: ...
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The Agitator —
... doctor’s responsibilities change from healing the sick to using the power of the state to prevent “unhealthy decisions?”
iTunes soon to be DRM-free.
Cult of the Presidency watch: “In 2003, a British colleague, stunned by the ubiquity of executive photographs in one agency we visited, remarked that he had witnessed an equivalent portrait reverence only in Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad.”
Porn moguls Larry Flynt and Joe Francis are asking for a bailout. Pretty sure this is tongue-in-cheek. Insert your own joke. ...
It's Getting Hard for the Porn Industry
Hit & Run —
... TMZ reports that porn moguls Joe Francis and Larry Flynt are asking the government for a $5 billion bailout, citing a 22 percent drop in DVD sales last year. ...
Well, why not?
Alarming News —
How embarrassing | Main | But only the living ones January 07, 2009 Well, why not? Porn producers want a government bailout. Seriously. Hat-tip Andrew Roth's twitter . Posted by Karol at January 7, 2009 02:27 PM | TrackBack Technorati Tags: Porn+industry+bailout Comments Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No Comments: Site Meter
Larry Flynt asks for a bailout of the porn industry.
The Volokh Conspiracy —
The latest bailout request from the porn industry is no more ridiculous than the one last month from the home building industry (to get out of the recession, we probably need less home building, not more). From TMZ : [Larry] Flynt (the "Hustler" guy) and [Joe] Francis (the "Girls Gone Wild" dude) are asking the government for a $5 billion bailout, claiming the adult entertainment industry has taken a huge shot to the face because of the downturn citing the fact that XXX DVD sales are down 22% from a year ago. "With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, ...
More bailout money of another huge industry?
Angry Bear —
A link to the possible bailout of another major industry?
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BlondeSense —
Friday, January 9 Obligatory Friday Sex Post Porn Kings want DC bailout. Seems that dirty movie sales have gone limp in the past year. Posted by Blondesense Liz | ...
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