Random Esquire

Boss and I watched a news magazine television show about a week ago. They did a piece on e-mail spam. This woman received an e-mail with a rather graphic picture of a young lady riding a horse, so to speak, along with some promotional materials for a website I’ll refrain from mentioning. The recipient of said e-mail was very upset and the reporters in the show decided to track down the very individual who sent that bit of spam. Their quest took them into Canada, out to Las Vegas for an online porn convention, and back to Canada where they eventually had lunch with the offending man and confronted him with a mobile phone so he could apologize to the woman to whom he’d sent the e-mail.

They spent all that time, energy, and money finding the person who hit the send button and then asking him if he thought what he did was wrong. Let me get this straight. You have a picture of a woman having sex with a horse and your story is about the guy who sent the e-mail? This is the point at which you’ve really lost touch with your audience. I don’t want to know if he thinks it’s okay to send spam. Go find the girl sleeping with the horse. I mean, you’ve got a picture of her. It’s bound to be easier than finding some anonymous pervert trying to make a buck off of other anonymous perverts. This woman thinks it’s okay to have sex with animals. Go find her because I want to hear what she has to say for herself.

The media is rubbish.