214 karma · joined January 22, 2013
As a reporter who receives these kind of emails from PR flacks all day, I can say that it is as simple and stupid as this in most cases. I can't say with 100% certainty that no one ever just pays a reporter to write PR bullshit but most of the time it's gross laziness.
Good for you for having that attitude, of course, but that's such a foreign state of mind to me. I stumbled across the finish line in high school and self-destructed in college. Things have worked out but I wonder what even a small change in state of mind would have done for me as an adolescent.
There's a lot of "I can't imagine living elsewhere" and a certain attitude that I find really funny.
I mean, I grew up here and love living here but boy oh boy, you can't even imagine living elsewhere? That says something sad about your imagination, doesn't it?
No one says you "have to" prove anything but if you enter into an Internet argument and then pull this out, do you really expect people to take you seriously?
They'll look at the weather in the next 30 minutes and judge whether or not the drone can fly. Pretty simple, right?