Actually thats very true. The media have about as much ethics as the vendors, they just want to sell their stories, no matter what consequences arise. Whats worse is that the media think they are doing the right thing by keeping people 'informed' (informed to their distorted truths).
The majority of dealers/vendors may essentially be parasites who earn their crust flogging unresearched and in some cases addictive, toxic or fatal to anyone with a debit card (oldskool cash in an envelope still seems popular in some of the shadier parts the lie in the shade of the Shitty Drug Tree (or
pudendus animusattero mephedronium if you like more horticultural with your
sometimes dirt cheap, often shitty in terms of quality and effects, and frequently thought to be very probably (or at best very possibly) very dodgy in one way or many for body, mind or both in some cases, drugs plant food.
Rant with reason - ColtDan very obviously got sent some other random crap instead of MDAI. Vendors can be lower than pond life and should maybe do with some of their own "pond cleaner" sometimes.
However, there are also a few gems amongst them - dealer and vendor alike. The same could probably be said about proper journalism... but even Pulitzer Prize-winners can't make you physically experience heaven, hell and maybe even the odd glimpse hyperspace for twenty quid by next day delivery
I'll take the hordes of parasitic vendors selling shitty poisons over the journalists who not only feed off the back of the vendors they routinely advertise in editorials as well as all the bazillion "Plant Food" links on their sites but take their greatest pleasure in callously cannibalising the casualties.
/random rc vendor rantings (possibly at least partly fuelled by rather bizarre combinations earlier)
Also, off-topic. Not so much the 10th Circle of Hell as much as the 13th Dodecahedron of Despair. May have been the 12th Triangle of Torment (which is twinned with the Estate of Evil, the Fractal of Fuckedbeyondbeliefinalltheworstwayssimultaneously and the Rhombus of Regret). Never did manage to pin it down to just one of them due to the (blessed) delirium but can safely say that it really was quite astonishingly shit for some considerable time
PS: MDAI is nice though, huh? :D