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F-Word Punker, there was an item on the radio about the coverage
of the Ipswich murders being exactly as you describe; focusing
on the victims' physical characteristics like hair colour and
endlessly substituting the word 'prostitute' for 'women'.  It
depresses me that there has been zero fucking progress on how
sex workers are treated in the media. This kind of reportage is
hardly going to discourage mistreatment of these women: if
anything it tacitly condones it.  The contributors included the
Guardian's Joan Smith btw... punker, some news stations have
started to refer to them as "sex workers" or just "the murdered
women"... I think it's partly to do with them having this in
common. Although I wish they'd refer to them as women first.
Although I'd be pretty speechless if I heard someone make a
comment like that.  Hopefully this might help getting the sort
of regulations they have in