To find this article re Comic Relief shoddily written, odd and pointless?

[Punkatheart]

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/13/comic-relief-prostitution-claims-off-donating?CMP=twt_gu

YANBU. It's weirdly written and her intro is very poor.

Hmm. I have read her other articles in the telegraph. I am not sure how she has made a career in recent years churning out the same point I re and over again (it's ok to be a prostitute if you want to be one).

Is is badly written, I have no idea how she got that past her editor. But she has a point.

She seems to be unclear on the difference between mean, mode and median

I agree, I read the first few sentences and got bored and didn't read the rest. And I like reading.

But quite frankly I'm amazed anybody still donates anything to a charity organised by the BBC, after they let Terry Wogan siphon off £100,000s from Children in Need.

More publicity for Brooke Magnati. Because she's educated, she entered prostitution at the age of 28 and she wasn't controlled or coerced she refused to entertain that there is a widespread problem in the sex industry, even whrn it is backed up by something a bit more robust than her own personal experience.

She's an apologist for the abuse and exploitation of women and girls and the Guardian does itself a disservice by fawning over her.

Sorry for being ranty, but she really gets on my tits

Tbh I always think she is a cheap way for newspaper editors to get keywords into their articles, as hers seem to be exclusively about sex, without the 'low brow' connotations of lads mag chat etc. I agree she legitimises a pretty horrible industry that few women would choose to enter completely of their own volition.

Hmm, I can see her point, but at the same time am aware that a lot of genuinely good work which is not "glamorous" or headline-grabbing is funded via umbrella charities like Comic Relief and Children in Need. For example, 20-odd years ago almost (I use that modifier because I don't know the stats) every worker employed by WA to work with dc in refuge were paid via CIN, and although the services of WA are invaluable, it's not a charity that attracts enough public donations of yer actual cold, hard cash to continue. Most WA workers are paid via their local councils, and services are being hit hard.

But otoh I'm astonished CR are relying on shit stats like that, it used to be a lot harder to get charitable support.