So a while back a guy got in trouble in Canada for having a bunch of kiddy porn, including some lolishota manga. During this time, a newspaper briefly defined all anime as Japanese animated porn. Oops.
Now Perth Now, an Australia-based news site, has done the same thing. A Singaporean man has plead guilty to importing child pornography and “anime pornography depicting sexual violence,” and their article says…
“Anime” is a Japanese form of animated pornography.
One user has already jumped on the error and demanded a correction, but man, how many times is this going to happen? Admittedly, I’m biased since this genre is my hobby and sometime profession, but as a journalist I can’t imagine how this kind of mistake gets made– and missed by editors and factcheckers.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Obviously more journalists need to pay attention to what they’re talking about, and if they don’t know anything, find out. Preferably not from people who don’t know much about it or from the Internet. :P
August 15th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I just had this conversation about two weeks ago. A friend’s coworker thought the same thing. At least the friend came to me without jumping to conclusions first. *sigh*