Porn star and notorious reader Sasha Grey appeared Wednesday on The View to defend herself from critics who lambasted the adult film actress for reading to children. “I think there was a lot of sanctimonious media firestorm thrown at me,” Grey exclaimed. “However, I’ve always gone after what i want and I will continue to do that.”

The other day, while writing a post discussing a TV show that seeks to find a middle ground between pornography and reality television, I loudly (perhaps too loudly) announced to our obliging (perhaps too obliging) office that I would rather watch 20 minutes of the worst porn than one episode of any reality series. Instantly, people started sending me links and videos and I was forced to retract my statement after watching just seconds of one. Instead of disregarding it completely though, I downgraded it to this: I respect any porn star more than any reality TV star. I then thought it would be interesting to examine why.

So the whole Charlie Sheen debacle this week is about to get just a little sleazier.

You see, that “escort” locked in the bathroom isn’t an escort at all. She’s a porn star, Capri Anderson, and as she gets lawyered up, get ready for her to step into the media spotlight!

He may have lost some big donors and his most important staffer, but at least GOP Chair Michael Steele can claim a new recruit in adult film star Stormy Daniels. Daniels, who has been contemplating a Senate run for David Vitter‘s seat in Louisiana, is ready to make the move from lifelong Democrat to loyal Republican thanks to the latter’s good taste in bondage-themed night clubs.

While doing image search after image search to satisfy the Power Grid’s voracious appetite for photos, we here at Mediaite came upon a rather titillating discovery: a surprising number of media professionals seem to have an odd connection to another seedy profession: pornography!