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Chapter 2
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are pedophiles who enslave and exploit female Asians. Such wild and highly sensationalized stories sell big and increase ratings and sales for TV shows and magazines/newspapers who love to exploit such topics.

60 MINUTES, in their October 1996 "R&R in Southeast Asia" show, became the perfect example of how journalists sensationalize and exaggerate such topics to entertain viewers (and thereby increase ratings for their show). On that show, professional liar Ed Bradley, while showing a video clip of the Walking Street (Beach road) in South Pattaya Beach Resort, claimed that child prostitution was abundant and easy to find. Bradley said one does not need to "look very hard or far" to find the thousands of "prostituted children" of Thailand. He said this as the TV show played a clip of Beach road near Soi Diamond, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Thailand for chasing girls. Underage girls, that is, according to Bradley.

Now, when the time came to actually documenting one single underage prostitute along the Walking Street where Bradley claimed underage girls were "not hard to find", he could not do so. Why? The answer is obvious. There weren't any underage prostitutes to be found. That left the 60 MINUTES crew in a very uncomfortable position, seeing that their whole TV show would depend on an interview with at least one underage Thai prostitute. They now had to resort to desperate measures to make their show happen.

Luckily, with the help of a Thai guide provided by G&F Tours out of Florida (on the show Bradley claimed the guide was that of Mac Horn's, a blatant lie), they were escorted to a local Thai brothel where they found this one so called 15 year old prostitute. I say, "so called" because the producer of the shaw, John Hamlin openly admitted they never checked the ID of the prostitute (great investigators, huh?). That's pretty trusting of the producer, to base his entire show on the words of a Thai prostitute, "Who said she was 15." I

60 MINUTES ignored the thousands of prostitutes in Thailand who are of age (as above) and based their entire show on the words of a single girl who "said she was 15." They never checked the girl's ID to see if she was lying about her age.