Memphis Remains the Center Of the Universe

WMC-TV is the local NBC affiliate in Memphis. On Monday night of this week they ran a story about a porn video being shot in a local public park. The woman featured in the video appeared on a playground where the  neighborhood children are reported to play, although none appear anywhere in the video. This raises (pun intended) a number of obvious questions:

• Many Memphians want to know how the reporter managed to locate the website within a week of the video shoot? 
• Will Memphians now be referred to as Memphomaniacs?!?!?
• Does the “news” department employ a full-time research assistant who does nothing but surf for porn and how can several of my friends apply for a similar position?
• Remind me again why they refer to the station refers to itself as Action News Five?
• Will WMC-TV report only hard news from now on or will they still do the occasional puff piece? 

As if that weren’t enough on Tuesday night the same station ran a follow-up story and reported that the same woman had posted another film of herself this time at the local Putt Putt Golf and Games. Since it has already been publicly reported on several websites, I’m not really telling you anything new when I divulge the name of the website. It is foxyjacky dot com for those of you who feel the need to research this issue more thoroughly.

At this point, many of you are probably expecting me to editorialize on the numerous nuanced (say that five times fast) moral issues pertaining to this. Well there are plenty of erudite people already doing just that on a number of other sites and I’m not sure I can add anything illuminating on this topic.

However, it is amazing to me that this story is being picked up nationally. Memphis has a lot of events deserving national attention, but apparently sex really does sell in this country so we’re now going to be known as the place where that girl flashed her cooter on the playground and then at putt putt (insert your own punchline about putters and poon here).

That brings me to my point. Although much of the world doesn’t understand why anyone would voluntarily live in my city, I’ve got to tell you: there’s never a dull moment here in the news center of the universe!