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James Jarman: Irresponsible Bias in Reporting News?

The State of Colorado considered requiring massage therapists be licensed, and determined that there is no need for it at this time, based on a review of the massage industry paid for by taxpayer dollars, and carried out at the request of a "Sunrise Review" of an application for state regulation. That was LAST YEAR. But James Jarman and his KOAA.com website for the Colorado Springs local "News First 5/30" media company published this inflammatory article just yesterday, as if it was news.

James Jarman framed the massage licensing issue in a new light, starting the article:

Despite law enforcement expressing the need for licensing and regulation in the massage industry, the state department that would regulate massage therapists has told state lawmakers that regulation is not needed.

Combined with the headline "State Regulator Says No To Licensing Massage Therapists", this seemingly deceitful presentation of old news as new suggests to the reader that massage licensing is a current concern for Colorado government, instead of the FACT that this was addressed and decided LAST SUMMER. Maybe James Jarman isn't happy with the outcome of the democratic, lawful process of government, but shouldn't he (and KOAA) limit their editorial opinions to the editorial pages?

This "article" (which is really just editorialized propaganda) is obviously supporting someone in the business of licensing massage therapists, such as massage schools, massage certificate programs, or those "international associations" that take several hundred dollar annual fees from hard-working massage therapists who are literally forced to buy them by unfair state laws in other states.

According to James Jarman:

As we've reported over the past few months, the massage therapy industry, along with Springs Metro Vice and the El Paso County Sheriff want licensing and regulation to help clean up the industry.

That's right. Someone is presenting themselves as "the massage therapy industry" and getting James Jarman to write inflammatory stuff like this, presented as news.

James Jarman continues to say :

In November we heard Sheriff Terry Maketa say that without regulation, no matter how many busts officers make the illegal operations continue to flourish in unincorporated El Paso County. "Having some type of regulation, some type of licensing would dramatically turn the tide to our favor and that's what we need if we're really going to have an impact on these operations," Maketa told News First.

Again, by presenting this as news and starting with statements from Police vice units, James Jarman is sugesting that the people and government need massage therapist licensing. Wrong, as considered and decided by Colorado government regulators last year. That vice activity being busted by cops is not massage therapy. It's usually unlicensed illegal business, and if the Police can't stop it, the Police need lawmakers to pay attention to that problem.

The only people who will benefit from mandatory massage licensing are those collecting fees from massage therapists: the massage schools, certificate programs, and sketchy "International Associations" who charge several hundred dollar membership fees for little more than a mebership card. Ask 10 massage therapists if they need mandatory licensing, and then report the results as "news" because ti will be to the readership of KOAA. Until now they are being led to believe massage therapists want mandatory licensing, instead of the truth which is massage schools and massage certification providers want mandatory licensing.

It seems very obvious James Jarman is in bed with some corporate/political agenda. That should be ok, as he is a citizen and entitled to his opinions, but is this news, and it is deceitful and misleading to frame this as news in the local media? Last i checked the FCC granted licensed to news outlets to use public airwaves. Is this abuse of the public trust?

No modern inflammatory news bit about massage would be complete without a mention of sex trafficking, and even though James Jarman had no news involving sex trafficking he managed to fit it in there by appending this:

The report does not mention human trafficking.

Huh. If the report does not mention human trafficking, James Jarman, why do you?

James Jarman also says this:

their review looked at massage therapy not massage parlors. State law defines as parlors as places where massages are given by people who didn't graduate from a massage therapy school. So looking only at therapists, regulators didn't find a lot of problems or complaints.

Okay, so that's the fact. Now we see the bias in James Jarman's reporting. Apparently, James Jarman  wants to associate massage therapy with prostitution, and is apparently (shocked? annoyed? frustrated? disappointed?) that the Colorado State government didn't share his desire to associate massage therapy with prositution. I'm wondering if James Jarman is affiliated with a radical religious group, based on this reporting. It seems like fishing for evil in something not understood. It sounds like a lazy manipulative way to force people to follow a belief system they haven't chosen to follow.

Colorado is a democracy, based on the rule of law and the concept of justice (legal justice, not religious justice). If you want to go to get massage therapy, find a massage therapist. If you want to meet a friendly, probably international lady for conversation over a body scrub and rub down, feel free to go to a massage parlor. If a massage parlor breaks the law and engages in prositution, bust them for it (and the man or woman who offered the low wage massage worker money for sex, because that is illegal as well).

KOAA has a published mission statement on their web site:

We will serve our communities with a quality news product that is overwhelmingly local, relevant, and useful to viewers. We will listen to our viewers' interests and concerns and seek solutions with compassionate stories and pro-active journalism. We will build on our leadership position, providing community involvement programs that will help enrich the quality of life for our viewers. We will achieve these goals through good communication, teamwork, and an effective use of our resources.

Maybe it's time for James Jarman to read that mission statement. And if the people of Colorado Springs and Pueblo County want to close down illegal massage parlors that are actually fronts for prositution, they should do two things right away:

• stop going to them and paying for sexual favors, because they will close up shop if you do
• support your local law enforcement by helping them close illegal businesses when they find them

Neither requires passing of unreasonable state laws guaranteeing millions of profit dollars to "professional associations" and "massage schools", or placating religious groups pushing their unsolicited values onto the public. Licensing won't stop prostitution. It will simply drive legitimate massage therapists to charge higher fees and/or move to other states where they can make a living, while making the schools and certificate programs rich.

*** Thanks to the reader who submitted this. Excellent coverage of local issues in Colorado.

Lehigh PA Police buy Sex 4 Times: A Girl Starts to Wonder

When the Pennsylvania State Police in Lehigh Valley, near Allentown, PA use taxpayer money to pay for sex in a massage parlor, you hope it was done properly as part of a law enforcement operation. When you hear Pennsylvania police officer paid an informant to go back to that Asian massage parlor in Pennsylvania four times, paying for sex each time, you start to wonder just how much fun these guys were having "laying down on the job". But we massage girls also wonder when we hear about these outrageous incidences. What we wonder might be a little different, but only because we know more about how the massage parlor industry works (both inside the room and outside the room).

So when a Pennsylvania State Police officer near Allentown engages in soliciting prostitution, and the Lehigh county district attorney says the act of buying sex as part of a sting operation is not outrageous, we girls in the biz start to wonder:

• according to the reports, the officer's informant was advised to follow "universal precautions", which is the term given to sanitary precautions when dealing with blood and other bodily fluids. In other words, wear rubber gloves when working with dead or diseased people, wear a face mask when in rat invested dwellings, and ...? What about when going in on a sting at a massage parlor? Last I checked the most common offering by far in any massage parlor is the hand job. It's illegal in Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania, considered sex just like a blow job or intercourse, and subject to prosecution under the law. There isn't a massage parlor around (especially Asian massage parlors in PA) where the attendant would refuse to commit the illegal act of giving a hand job (manual release, a.k.a. masturbation). It's the cheapest, too, typically costing a $40 tip. So a girl has to wonder, if the Pennsylvania State Police representative went in to uncover illegal solicitation by the massage attendant, why did he prepare by bringing a condom? Unless he planned on having his own orifices bathed in the bodily fluids of some massage attendant, what was the condom for?
• according to the reports, the police officer's sent this guy back 4 times, paying for sex in the massage parlor four times. Wow. "I had to screw her four times, to make sure she was really offering sex for money", I imagine he must have written into his report. Or maybe the police officers monitoring the event via wireless radio transmissions (also described in the report) weren't quite sure what "oh baby oh baby ohhhhhhhhh shit bitch I'M COMING AAAAAAHHHH!" meant. You know those little squeaky "eh" sounds that Asian prostitutes make when they are getting screwed... one little exhaled "eh" with each thrust? Well, maybe they weren't entirely audible on the radio transmission?  "What did she say? Do it again... we need better audio" the surveillance team might have said, as they sent the guy back in with a fresh condom.
• a girl also has to wonder if this is how the police officers reward their informants for snitching. After all, these informants are usually guilty themselves (of at least having knowledge of the crimes committed) so what are these cops doing, paying for criminals to get free sex from prostitutes?
• A girl has to wonder if the team of friends took turns screwing the prostitutes. I mean, surely one guy getting handed $200 of taxpayer "expense money" to buy himself some middle aged Asian pussy FOUR times would have pissed off some of the shift crew. "Why does he get all the honey?", they would ask, especially if the snitch was a well known loser street criminal. Bad for business, for sure. So I wonder, was this "informant" actually someone's friend, brother in law, a retired cop, a friendly associate or what? Who got the free pussy?

Of course I have assumed sexual intercourse, but it might just have been oral sex. A condom is advised for oral sex, as part of universal precautions. But then a girl has to wonder:

• Is oral sex oral sex if it is simply "Asian whore mouth around undercover guy's stiff dick? I mean, is there some rule that says he has to achieve climax before it is "sex for money"? Four times back in to buy yet another blow job... this girl's just wondering', that's all.
• Also, what was the timing of these "buys"? Four times back for a blow job or sexual intercourse on the taxpayer dole, I am just curious if it was timed with the guy's personal life. Getting laid on a Friday night at 9pm is an awesome perk. But getting a blow job at 9am on a Monday is likely to drag the whole day's productivity down to a crawl. Who wouldn't want a nap and a peaceful day of relaxation after waking up on Monday morning, participating in an officer assignment meeting, and then stepping into a quiet massage room for a expert lip-smacking blow job from an anonymous Asian whore? I'm just curious how they planned it, that's all. Seems odd, to me anyway. Really.. who got the free pussy and why?

I think we get the true story from the clue offered by the reporter, who wrote:

The man brought the spa to police attention after going there for a massage and being appalled at supposedly being offered sex, XXX said.

So, this man goes to a massage spa in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and is "appalled" at being offered sex for money. He takes that knowledge to the police, who ask him to go back, buy pay for the sex (be sure to use a condom!) and document the visit for the court records. Oh, and then do it again. And again. Buy the sex four times (using four condoms, of course) and then we'll bust them based on your witness testimony.

Seriously, folks. How dumb do these cops think YOU are? (YOU being the taxpayers and citizens they are feeding this crap to). Or, if this is really what happened, how dumb are these cops? Imagine YOU are the cop at the desk when a citizen comes in to report that his massage therapist offered him sex for money. Would you believe him? I doubt it. Maybe if he was obviously genuinely upset and "appalled" at the experience, you might believe him. But.... would you then give him money to go back and buy that sex, four times? And if he did, would you still believe him?

You're being played, folks. Don't put up with it. Tell your public servants to get back to work and keep the streets safe, stop the robberies and break-ins, get the drug dealing out of the schools and do a better job keeping the bad guys in jail were they belong, instead of fooling around with whores and writing up bogus reports of crimes against humanity at taxpayer expense.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080206_Sex-buying_tactics_not_outrageous__D_A__says.html