12:30 Report: Your News Update
Diane Sawyer’s Philadelphia ho problem: Last Friday, ABC featured a special report from Diane Sawyer titled ” Prostitution in America: Working Girls Speak,” which featured interviews with some scraggly looking low-end hookers reportedly from the tough streets of Philadelphia. In fact, it was Camden. The Mighty Dan Gross gets ABC to admit it was wrong and stop disparaging our hookers. [The Mighty Dan Gross]
Pennsylvania Democrats surging: The Obama effect continues — 4 million registered as Democrats so far. [Philebrity]
Philly’s old, old giraffe bites it: Farewell, Puzzles. The Philadelphia Zoo’s 27-year-old reticulated giraffe passed away last night after a long battle with giraffe- and age-related illness. The Inquirer offers a formal obit: “She is survived by giraffes Stella, 7, and Twigga, 28, her enclosure mates in the Zoo’s ‘African Plains’ exhibit.” If there is a zoo animal death pool, Twigga would seem to be an easy play. [Inquirer]
Horeshoe crab sandwiches to become a rare delicacy: No more horseshoe crabbing in New Jersey. The ugly, dinosaur-looking crabs that are great fun to hurl across the dirty beaches of the Jersey shore are no longer allowed to be used as bait by commercial fisherman. [CBS 3]
