The Post tries to have it both ways in its coverage of Dupre today. They brag about the exclusive "glamour shots" of the most famous hooker in America, yet the coverage of Dupre has a whiff of righteous indignation about it. They did, after all, use "BAD GIRL" as the front-page headline. Andrea Peyser notes Dupre and Spitzer "deserve each other. One is mentally challenged by accident of birth. The other is that way by choice." Yeah, we don't really get who's supposed to be who either.
The Post is portraying Dupre as a spoiled brat looking to cash in on her newfound fame. The News is doing this too, but for some reason its coverage comes off as much more sympathetic. Maybe it's music critic Jim Farber's defense of Dupre's music. He admits it's not a groundbreaking achievement, but that the "cookie-cutter" track "may well say something worse about the state of dance-pop than it does about the quality of Dupre's talent." Or, it might just be that the News didn't splash the banner headline "OMG! I JUST DID THE GOVERNOR!" over pages 4 and 5. Good one, Post!
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