The media still refuses to refer to this as a spam case, but it looks like the government has its ducks in a row to put spammer Scott Levine in jail for a long time.

USA Today reports that six of Levine's Snipermail employees have reached deals with the government, in exchange for their testimony.

The only reporter I've seen yet with any cojones is Nick Farrell of The Inquirer in England (which has much stiffer libel laws than the U.S. by the way).

"Cops have Snipermail man in sights," is his headline. "Big Hack Spammer Charged."

And the lede is even more explicit. "THE OWNER of a spam email company has been charged with the largest data theft 'in history'."

Farrell also picks up on the fact this guy was not some "master hacker," which you might think when reading the U.S. coverage. "Levine’s hack was not that difficult, all he did was 'misuse a legitimate password and user name' while working for a company who did business for Acxiom. He then flogged it to other spammers."

Good on you, Nick. Good on the Inquirer.

Any more question about whether and why the UK dominates English-language journalism, while Americans have become lame, lazy and worthless?

I rest my case.