What you do in your bedroom qualifies as private. But you can't advertise yourself as a prostitute on a website and have any expectations of privacy.
The fact is, a reporter who has attended WH briefings and asked President Bush questions may have worked as a prostitute. That's a story whether the reporter is male or female, gay or straight, conservative or liberal. If a CNN reporter turned up working as a prostitute Freepers would be *all* over it.
CNN we'd be stunned and it would gather a lot of attention of course, but not surprised if some fly by night lefty operation person attended briefings and had this kind of background turn up.
Yes, it's news, but it did not warrant the over-the-top hysteria. And it most certainly did not warrant the baseless allegations like "plant" "ringer" "WH gave him secret memos" (and even more outlandish) parts of the story.
Sorry, but the endless efforts to say "if this were a dem" simply are not right.
Well, we don't know, do we, since we've never looked into the private lives of reporters. However, since they have removed those barriers, we may just find out all kinds of things about who is in the press room.