Sunday, July 20, 2008
Vending Machine Wear Saga Continues
Do you remember when Martin Fackler filed a dead-serious report on vending machine camouflage wear for urban women? Aya Tsukioka, the artist who fooled the New York Times reporter, is at it again. Sankei reports on her latest work, a performance art collaboration with Puma. The act runs through Monday, in the Shibuya neighborhood.
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They never printed any corrections or updates to that article, did they? Unbelievable.
Did 2-channel ever pick this up? If they're mad at Mainichi for portraying their country as wacky, what do they think of the top English newspaper in the world doing the same thing?
They never do. They just quietly back away, as Norimitsu Ohnishi did with his misreport on Prime Minister Abe's statements regarding the comfort women. (BTW, there's a small but significant lie/mistake in his take on the "pub taxis" as well. Want to hear about it?
The 2 Channel crowd must be monolingual. Remember, it took a Japanese-language blog (if Mr. Norrie's assistant got it right) to light the fire.
More important, it was episodic and anecdotal; not prevalent or systemic.
Also, just plain silly. We Japanese have a high tolerance for silly; we must be the White Canada (Wayne and Schuster, Jim Carrey, Mike Miller, John Candy, Gordon Lightfoot, Jason Jones and Samantha Bee...) of the Far East (aka TV broadcast networks). The Fackler report featured no sexual deviancies, no gore, no gambling...
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