The End of Avenatti: the Rise and Fall (and Fall and Fall and Fall) of the Creepy Porn Lawyer

“…I’ve been thinking about it, but I can’t quite come up with an analogy for the level of malevolence and incompetence that is rotting the media. Except perhaps … an aggressive cancer. I think maybe the press is like the “my last day at Home Depot” guy who takes out an entire bay of grills with a sideswipe from the electric elevator. Or maybe they’re like those atrocious Filipino divers from a few years ago.

But then, the damage done to human lives and souls by our demonic, utterly irredeemable and calamitous media is far worse than a few minutes of embarrassment from a botched high dive.

Whatever metaphor you come up with, the bottom line is that our media is not only deeply biased but savagely, cosmically incompetent. They fell for the ludicrous scams of Michael Avenatti, the disgraced lawyer who has just been sentenced to thirty months in jail for trying to extort Nike…”