Beginning of the End: Detroit News Panders to Us
So, for the commonplace email user it probably comes as no surprise to find a few hundred pieces of spam in your inbox each morning. Chances are there's an email or two from an real person in there as well. Maybe a link to a video of a baby doing something silly from Aunt Lucy and a link to a video of a college kid doing something stupid from your friend Steve. And if you're a blogger, you might get a few emails from your blogger friends with links to check out.
But isn't it a really poignant writing on the wall of the times when the Detroit News gets in on the act of spamming random bloggers?
Heck, I didn't even know we were aloof enough to warrant an email from them. Alas, the newspaper industry -- or at least this newspaper -- realizes what us internet trolls have known all along: there are a lot of eyeballs watching us. So much, in details, that said daily metropolitan newspaper felt it necessary to forward us (emphasis on us cause, well, we don't think we're that formidable) and other hockey blogs this super important, groundbreaking story on Darren McCarty's tax woes (pictured pink for the ladies).
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