Toronto's Tamil community shaken by slayings. ⇒
22 July 2009, early morning
The Globe and Mail is such a shitty paper. They manage to tie this boys death to the recent protests, the loss of the war in Sri Lanka, and a resurgence in 1990s gang crime. Speculate much?
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also, writer clearly not from Scarborough. “Mach 10”??
uh, the article talks a bunch about Tamil-on-Tamil violence or whatever but…doesn’t mention the ethnicity of the attackers (in either case). Has that been established elsewhere?
by Weiguo on July 22 2009, 1:35 pm #
If you think the Globe & Mail is a shitty newspaper, you’re not leaving yourself with many other options, are you? The Saturday Globe is up there with coffee, beer, and air in terms of things I require to sustain life.
by matthew on July 23 2009, 10:19 am #
You’ve got to be skeptical anytime a mainstream publication does a story on a normally marginal group/issue. The reporters get up to speed in a hurry, cobble together a compelling narrative and throw it out there. It can’t help but be half-assed and superficial and 99.5% of readers won’t know the difference.
I’ve watched the National on CBC regularly for as long as I can remember, and I believed Mansbridge was as credible as anyone, but their coverage of the protests and the conflict in SL was downright terrible.
He oversimplified the facts to the point that it distorted the story, repeatedly conflated ‘tamil’ and ‘tiger’ and ignored key events. The result wasn’t even passable, it was just poor journalism.
But if you didn’t know anything about Sri Lanka, it would have come off as a sober, competent recitation of the facts. On the other hand, as a member of the community, I’m probably hypersensitive to how the story is reported.
Either way, it’s a reminder about the nature of the media…
by Ananthan on July 23 2009, 11:21 pm #