Tuesday, April 10, 2007

PJs Has a Scoop! (Or Not.)

Pajamas Media's far-flung correspondent in Barcelona (I'm the InstaPutz Brooklyn correspondent!) highlights an AP piece which says:

Dating used to be largely a matter of spending time with a love interest, discovering the good, the bad and the ugly in person. If you were lucky, friends helped fill in some of the blanks.

These days, the Internet -- and the ability to check people out before they ever meet up -- has forever changed the rules.

For better or worse, "googling" your date has become standard practice.

Really?!

It says a heckuvalot about PJs -- which, inasmuch as it is an actual news-gathering organization, is falling apart as I write -- that this qualifies as news. And it is, I guess, news. It's news that Pajamas Media blew $3.5 million just to copy-and-paste a story covered by the New York Observer -- in its January 15, 2001 issue.

An alternate theory is that not a single member of the PJs editorial board has had a date since the Nineties and is thus unfamiliar with the mate-snaring abilities of "teh Google."

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