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Slow News Day? Respond To Some Spam
from the how-original dept
I've spoken before about reporters responding to spam. It seems that on a slow news day a reporter trying to come up with a news story eventually gets bored and looks at all the spam in their mailbox. Eventually they think it's an original idea to respond to that spam and write a story about the experience. Of course, it's been done many times before, but that won't stop yet another reporter from trying. This one responded to some spam for a "free" seminar on creating your own internet business. About the only thing we learn is that the people who respond to this stuff tend to be naive, uneducated and gullible. I think we knew that before.
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Better idea
Let these journalists infect their machines with viruses and report on that, too. Maybe they will get lucky and lose their big story, and they can write about how they can't make their column this week.
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