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The Backpage Backlash: Nicholas Kristof on ‘Egregious Capitalism’ at The Village Voice (thepoliticker.observer)

_The Village Voice_’s latest journalistic campaign has an unlikely target in
its crosshairs: _The New York Times_ columnist **Nicholas Kristof**.

Casual readers might think the alt-weekly champion of New York’s little guys
and _The Times_’ in-house humanitarian would be bound by ideology. But as a
result of two articles Mr. Kristof wrote this year about _Voice_ sister
company Backpage.com, he has become the subject of what he calls a
“disingenuous” attack published on the _The Village Voice_ website.

In a pair of columns, Mr. Kristof criticized the online classifieds site for
maintaining an adult services section, which—like Craigslist’s before
it—serves as a virtual agora for prostitutes and their handlers. The more
recent piece, published March 17, included a first-person account from
“Alissa,” who was sold into sex on Backpage.com starting at age 16.

“Nicholas D. Kristof was wrong about the most devastating 'fact' in his
Sunday, March 18th, column in _The New York Times_," the _Village Voice_ wrote
four days later. “According to Alissa's court testimony, she was 16 in 2003.
Backpage.com did not exist anywhere in America in 2003.”

“Had Kristof followed any of _The New York Times_' standards of journalism,”
it went on, “he would have ...

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