Bad Trips: How I Went from VICE Reporter to International Drug Smuggler

di Slava Pastuk (Autore)

Dundurn Group Ltd, 2022

The true story of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the company had ever had - by becoming an international drug smuggler. In 2019, music reporter Slava P, an editor for VICE media, was sentenced to nine years in prison for recruiting friends into a scheme to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. into Australia. Five of them were already in jail. Immediately, Slava P was internationally infamous. Was he a victim of pressure to commit extreme acts for the sake of a good story? A product of a drug-obsessed work environment? Or a manipulator who pushed vulnerable young people into crime? Here, Slava P tells his side of the story: what exactly happened and how the precarious, dog-eat-dog atmosphere of a media company can lead the young, the naive, and the ambitious into taking crazy risks. Bad Trips is a story about drugs, hip-hop, influencers, and glamour, set against the backdrop of one of the world's most influential news and entertainment sites, VICE. Its cast of beautiful young people and semi-famous rappers passes from the seediest apartments to the most elegant of private clubs. Slava P's chronicling of his years at this famous hotbed of excess is a piercing insight into contemporary media culture. All royalties from the sale of Bad Trips go to co-author Brian Whitney.

• Autore: Slava Pastuk
• Editore: Dundurn Group Ltd
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 248 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 298 gr.
• EAN: 9781459749252

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