The BBC had the right idea. Shortly before the Nevada primary, they dispatched one of their (female) reporters to a major Las Vegas brothel (whose name I forget). The idea was that the "working girls" would be able to speculate on the outcome of the primary on the basis of their unique "social networking" position. As far as I am concerned, it was as good a forecasting method as any; and the story was reported just like any other on the BBC, with only the slightest whiff of good humor. Since this story had a point to make beyond just bringing cameras into a brothel, I felt it had more value than either HBO's "reality" programming or ABC's "reality" programming, which is worse for masquerading as investigating reporting!
So what's next? Ashley Alexandra Dupré is now a millionaire. Will CNBC invite her to discuss her investment portfolio?

A Media whore reporting on real whores.

I have much more respect for the working girls.

All I can say is "It's about damn time". What was the network doing, waiting till some high profile government official got caught in a prostitution scandal? I mean, it's not like they were waiting to get higher ratings, was it?

Pandering? Perhaps, but prostitution is a fact of life. It's never going away.