Word: flynt
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...Cincinnati goes, so goes the nation. That?s what pornographer Larry Flynt is trying to establish at his latest trial, which opened in the southern Ohio city on Monday. Flynt and his brother Jimmy are charged with violating local obscenity laws, some of the most stringent in the country, by selling sexually explict videos to a 14-year-old at their local Hustler Magazine and Gifts store. Flynt who?s been busy baiting Cincinnati?s smut-shunning political establishment for years, wants to do nothing less in the current case than "to smash the current legal definition of obscenity, which...
...says Stein, "and the concept of community standards is disappearing." If people in Cincinnati, or anywhere else in the country, can log on to porn web sites from anywhere else in the world, how can local standards exist, let alone be defined, for any medium? This is the argument Flynt wants to press and win at his trial, and thereby "turn himself from smut peddler to First Amendment statesman," says Stein. But Flynt may not get his chance. "The prosecutors in this case were smart," says Stein. "They sent underage kids to buy the porn." And the laws on protecting...
...properties, including a gambling site, a psychic site and a site prescribing Viagra. He has often repeated his mantra of aspiring to be the Sumner Redstone of New Media (referring to the chairman of giant Viacom), but as it stands, he remains closer to being the Internet's Larry Flynt...
...besides the dubious content of the book, we should consider the dubious character of its publisher. Besides his First Amendment rights victory in the Supreme Court, Flynt was few other accolades to boost his reputation as a defender of public officials. But even more pertinent than his degrading pornographic magazines is Flynt's reckless disregard for the truth. A bit of Flynt's history sheds light on his disrespect for the public and the powers of the media. In 1983, Flynt claimed he had evidence that government officials had threatened John DeLorean's life if he did not participate...
...Though Flynt claims that his "Report' is part of his effort to defend President Clinton against the politics of personal destruction and reveal hypocritical congressmen, it is really a new low in the media's obsession with sex. Surely the "Report" is motivated by more than Flynt's support for President Clinton; he must be eager to earn back some of the $4 million by selling the magazine to impeachment followers that simply cannot get enough. Hopefully, Flynt will earn back only a small piece of the pie and the "report" will languish on magazine racks instead of revitalizing Sexual...