ABC News just broke the story (about an hour ago) about the identity of Elliot Spitzer's call girl. Where did the news organization get most of its information about 22-year-old Ashley Alexandra Dupre? Her "well kept MySpace page."
Dupre's MySpace page has apparently received 5 million hits since her identity was revealed. The ABC piece uses her MySpace profile to speculate on Dupre's life, motivations and personality:
"In some of her MySpace photos, Dupre is the sexy club-goer out on the town, or is goofing off, making digital self-portraits; or she is sleek and tan on a boat in a shot she says was taken in St Tropez; or she is passed out after what looks like a long night. "It happens a lot," she writes."
What do I find interesting about this? That social networking sites are driving mainstream media coverage. We know more about Dupre because we can see how she describes/presents herself in the online sphere.
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