It’s a journalistic embarrassment how an operation as sleazy and unimportant as Ashley Madison.com gets editors to turn somersaults by sending a plain brown envelope of postal codes to the City Desk. Would it be time to assign a reporter to check out the adulterous 400,000 person membership (wherever they reside) as genuine? Apparently not. Hey, adultery is adultery. So what if the ranks of those supposedly seeking afternoon quickies contains classes of giggling freshmen. No adultery in Leaside? Maybe that’s because most of the people there are really married. You still have to be married to commit this act, you know. Dear Ashley, buy an ad. You belong in the back of NOW with the rest of the non-news sex advertisers.
Surely you do not wish to soot your humble messenger?
So why do you write about the site and give them more free advertising? Exactly what they wanted.