One of my e-news reports cites an article by Lance Ulanoff, who reports that the "pregame" MTV release that promised "something shocking" was yanked, altered, pulled again, put back differently, etc.

If anyone actually cares what MTV said before the game, the pregame release is now back at MTV Pregame Release, apparently in it's original form, but with an added "editor's comment" inserted, explaining "that wasn't what we were talking about."

Although not too impressively presented, Mr Ulanoff's points about the manipulation of "history" are, perhaps, worth some thought.

As one who's normal interest in either celebrity news or football ranges from who cares to a little south of so what, I did go to the web to see if I could find a little about the persons and businesses involved.

My first conclusion was that, as a DDoS attack on the internet, the media generated frenzy over this was much more successful than the notorious "MyDoom" worm attack on SCO and Microsoft during the past couple of weeks. I found both individual pages and entire sites "operating" - but completely shut down when the "traffic" exceeded site capabilities, and numerous individual pages pulled, apparently in an attempt to control/reduce the traffic. A couple of sites with content about people who's names only resembled names of persons involved appeared to have been simply "turned off" until people get tired of it all.

And they will.

John