The “IT” Story
The other day, BoingBoing included this bit on a relatively-unknown author who claims to have pieced together the details of a huge religious-political conspiracy and who is trying to sell a flash drive containing the documentation for $3.5M. Link
He says that the documents are all in the public domain, and that he has simply done the research and compilation necessary to bring the story to light. Which, of course, is the problem. How can he prove to a news organization that (a) he is not part of the tinfoil-hat brigade, (b) his story is credible, and (c) his story is newsworthy?
I don’t think it’s likely, but $3.5M isn’t really that much money to a news organization and I would love to see one of them take a gamble and buy the flash drive.
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Being the skeptic I am, I’ll give him 20 bucks - the worth of the flash drive.