Just Call Me "Gregor"
Oct. 17th, 2004 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarrick
I've just read the mess in The Province this morning, "The Truth About Goth". The research looks like it went about as far as reading over the FAQ on Gothic BC, recycling parts of the Toronto Star article the other day, and talking to a 20-year old who claims to have "been in the scene for a really long time". I have Siouxsie records older than her! Not to mention the sidling-up of my name up beside a poorly drawn metaphor in order to equate me with a pill-bug. It's not a terrible article, but it is clearly based on only a few hours research and no fact checking - precisely the sort of thing I was afraid of but expecting nonetheless. In all it is a typical Surrey Province article: badly written, poorly researched, and targeted at mental 12-year olds.[EDIT: on a second look, now that I'm not quite so pissed off about being compared to a bug, it's not such a bad effort. No worse than the attempts at redemption made by the Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun. The same sort of mistakes are made, but one can only expect so much, particularly from a tabloid.]
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Date: 2004-10-17 01:50 pm (UTC)Don't get me wrong, I am not ragging on this woman. But what does bother me is the source this guy used, a 20 year old, despite the fact that they even admit that Goth has been around since the 80's. What kind of source is he using here? I hate to say thins, but I wanted to report about the war in Iraq, I wouldn't talk to a soldier who has just spent three days there. I would talk to a soldier who had spent at least a year there. However the fact that this woman works in a Goth-oriented store does seem like a good source. I would rather they have talked to the owner, however.
I think the paper made an honourable attempt, however I think it's only going to piss more people off. Sadly, Mike Roberts was once responsible for writing an Indy music column, and I would have thought he'd have known a bit more on where and how to get the best information. *sigh*
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Date: 2004-10-17 01:51 pm (UTC);)