Sex trade workers become journalists to prevent further misrepresentation

By Sunny Freeman

Two Vancouver women-centered service groups supporting sex trade workers aim to control the impact of the media frenzy during the Pickton trial in January 2007 by compiling a press package to protect women from journalists.

WISH and PACE, sex trade worker groups in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, plan to release a video of clips from the extended family of some of the women that Robert Pickton is accused of murdering, before his trial begins on Jan. 8.
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Public split on interest in Pickton trial

POLL RELEASE January 22, 2007

News Release: School of Journalism, University of British Columbia

The first poll on public interest in the murder trial of Robert Pickton has found that slightly more than half of British Columbians (52%) are interested in media coverage of the case, with slightly less that half (46%) not interested. Vancouver residents are also significantly less interested in the trial than those who live outside of the Lower Mainland. Only 1 per cent are not aware of the trial.
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