Elke Tanzer has a link up to an article about a particularly disturbing new business in Las Vegas. This is downright *scary*!! Forget being ill or ticked off about it - I find it utterly FRIGHTENING that there's a BUSINESS out there catering to the idea of men holding guns of any kind to hunt down and "kill" women. Just a "game" my ass! Add to that the fact that videos are made that the guys get to take home (and probably copy a zillion times and sell) and now there's a whole fetish about hunting down women. That doesn't exactly make me feel safe and secure on a daily basis. Good gods, if this is what it takes for some guy to get off his rocks he needs to see a freaking PSYCHOLOGIST.

NOTE: (7/22/03) Okay, now my disgust is directed at stupid reporters and the legitimate news media for not THROUGHLY investigating a story. At least Snopes did some homework.

I'm enough of an Internet veteran to be very skeptical about "news" I see come across email from unknown sources. I'm usually the one informing others about hoaxes. But when I see/read news and information on a local or national news outlet there's a certain amount of faith I put in the *professionalism* of the people in that industry. I.e Checking the facts? Serious investigation? Being smart enough not to get so completely and totally duped and then passing that along to the rest of us?

**sigh**

Back int he mid-90's I started to seriously distrust the motivations of reporters when they'd ask for an interview. I had too many bad experiences when queried about the SFLAaEBS or DDEB. I can't stand Time or Newsweek for that reason. Too many holes. And now, after so many high-profile falsification scandals in some of the most trusted news outlets I have NO trust in the veracity of ANY of that media. I hate (a) being lied to, (b) having my time and passion wasted on fiction, and (c) inadvertently helping some creep promote his product. It's just too bad that in a time when news can travel around the world in the blink of an eye, that we can trust very little of it.

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