Vick Kennel Site is a Hoax

I love the Internet. There is a lot of accurate information and credible sources which one can find on it. Going on the other end of the spectrum, however, there is a great deal of false information one can read on this medium.

With the 24 hour news cycle being spread on MSNBC, Faux News, CNN, and other channels, some "journalists" may have to dip themselves into the risky world of the not-so-credible material on the Internet.

That brings me to something I read last night on ESPN.com. The headline regarded Michael Vick being linked to a dog breeding site. First off, Vick stated a while back that he was involved in a dog breeding business. This is not illegal and as his career won't last forever, he's attempting to play around with potential future jobs. I looked at this site and recommend everyone else with any interest in the story to do so as well. The URL is: VicksK9Kennels.com

This is a very fake looking website, very elementary in its appearance and make-up, and I can't for the life of me believe that a dog-breeding organization owned by one of the richest players in football, could have such a site representing their company. At first glance, it looked like one of those free homepages you can make when a member of yahoo.com. The title at the top left was "untitled". Yeah, very professional indeed. When I clicked on the "About us" option on the site, it only talked about cookies, in the computer sense. It didn't have anything to say about the actual company. It looked to me like it was a 5th grader's project in a computer course. Well, this 5th grader earns an "A" for fooling the gullible and ignorant media. Geez. It's too bad it wasn't posted on April 1st, because that would've just been icing on the cake for me to laugh whole-heartedly at the media's ignorance and gullibility.