Nothing in that letter is believable. It's too perfect a troll. Viral marketing.
If you assume that about this story, it's pretty shocking and worthy of some discussion, so you might upvote it. I thought it was real for the first few paragraphs and my jaw was on the floor. It's a pretty obvious fake though.
Yea that's my problem - this used to be true - but not recently - now it's like reddit without the memes.
That said, I do struggle to understand how some stuff whooshes to the front page, and other equally interesting stuff just gets ignored...