So, the Oregon Daily Emerald– that’s the campus paper of the University of Oregon, and no, I did not attend the UofO –has an editorial up about anime, titled “Japanese Anime Destroying American Society.” (Poor use of the journalistic dropping of ‘is,’ IMO.)
It’s a satire piece (either that or a very strange person wrote it), but the humor’s a bit weak. There are a couple of good lines, like “No matter who you are - whether you’re black, white, Asian, Latino, even Canadian - I don’t judge you by the color of your skin.” But few and far between.
Still, it’s kinda fun to see one’s hobby represented in the newspaper of one of the largest universities in one’s state.
Tags: mainstream-media, satire
October 16th, 2007 at 12:12 am
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October 16th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
It’s hard to tell…either the author fails at intelligent commentary (if it’s meant to be taken seriously) or fails at satire (if it’s meant to be a joke). Quite honestly if it is a joke, it’s poorly told with it being in a ’serious’ setting and woefully unfunny. Student newspapers must have really gone downhill since I was at uni…
If this was a mainstream publication rather than a random student effort, I reckon we’d have a real situation on our hands.
October 17th, 2007 at 9:21 am
[...] has Bad Writers, Readers Tags: letters, mainstream media, rantsSo I talked a bit ago about a mediocre satire on anime that appeared in the Oregon Daily Emerald recently. I didn’t think much of it after [...]