Bad trips: how I went from Vice reporter to international drug smuggler

"The memoir of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the magazine had ever had — by becoming an international drug smuggler. In 2019, Canadian music reporter Slava P., an editor for VICE media, was sentenced to nine years in prison for recruiting friends into a scheme...

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Authors: Pastuk, Slava (Author) ; Whitney, Brian (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto Dundurn Press [2022]
In:Year: 2022
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 21 A 2036
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Keywords:
Pastuk, Slava
Drug couriers > Canada > Biography
Drug traffic > Canada
Drug traffic > Australia
Drug couriers
Drug traffic
Autobiographies
Biographies
Australia
Canada
USA > Australien > Cocain > Drogenhandel > Schmuggel > Journalist
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Summary:"The memoir of a music editor at VICE who tried to become the coolest reporter the magazine had ever had — by becoming an international drug smuggler. In 2019, Canadian 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 naïve, and the ambitious into taking crazy risks. Bad Trips is a story of 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’s chronicling of his years at this famous hotbed of excess is a piercing insight into contemporary media culture."--
Physical Description:235 Seiten
Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN:9781459749252