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Posted by Bill *** These kids may have the right idea ... Ninja madness hits Canterbury campus Its headquarters are at a secret location, but Ninjasoc, Canterbury University's hottest new social club, has no trouble signing up new members. ... but they suffer from totally lame execution: However, so far martial-arts skills are limited to instruction on the art of tying jumpers around heads to make a ninja mask and "getting pumped". Being a ninja without the ability to pass through walls, kill one's own students and pluck a man's eye from his skull is like being a dog that hates roast beef, won't chase rabbits and can't lick its own "kibble n' bits." Pointless.
Regarding the dress code story it seems that my column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun. Allah isn't quite buying it. For my part, it seems like there's a solid basis for the thrust of the story (legislation about religiously determined dress codes), but getting "the spirit" of a story right is hardly the standard for adequate journalism. It appears that Taheri strongly asserted potential outcomes of a legit story as facts, and thus ... well, got "ahead of the news cycle," to borrow an unfortunate turn of phrase. Aziz over at Dean's World takes a harsh line on Taheri and his story, and a very good back-and-forth follows in the comments section.
Scroll up from that post to witness the progressive*, righteous deconstruction of a likely phony. * By "progressive" I mean "incremental," rather than the euphemistic self-identifier used by wacky leftists that eat up stories by fake Iraq War veterans. Posted by Bill at May 23, 2006 09:33 AM | TrackBack (2) Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsTaheri strongly asserted potential outcomes of a legit story as facts, and thus ... well, got "ahead of the news cycle" Well, to be fair, it was an op-ed, not a news article. No one holds American op-ed columnists, who make various wild claims about what Bush is going to do to on a daily basis, to that standard. And Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi backs him up. Posted by: TallDave at May 23, 2006 10:41 AM You have to get the facts correct in an op-ed. Whether Maureen Dowd regularly gets away with making shit up is largely immaterial. That said, some of the more extreme interpretations ascribed to him weren't actually written by him at all. Posted by: Bill from INDC at May 23, 2006 10:57 AM He didn't get any facts wrong. He gave his opinion on what the result of the legislation will be. Posted by: TallDave at May 23, 2006 12:06 PM I took a different meaning. It's always possible that my interpretation is off. Posted by: Bill from INDC at May 23, 2006 12:20 PM Well, in defense of both sides, the Iranian legislative process is a bit of a mystery (it's still not clear what the law actually will be). So Taheri's statements may have been taken as factual by some when they weren't intended as such. Posted by: TallDave at May 23, 2006 12:29 PM Re: the Ninja Club story. Anyone who read the early issues of The Tick (i.e., the comic book) will find this to be no surprise whatsoever. Anyone who never read the early issues of The Tick will have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyone who has no idea who The Tick is, well, you have my pity... Posted by: Martin L. Shoemaker at May 23, 2006 10:27 PM I know who the Tick is. Posted by: Speak at May 24, 2006 02:47 PM Dean is badmouthing you over at his site. I stuck up for you. Posted by: Veeshir at May 24, 2006 02:48 PM My commenter Lew Clark said it best: "College is a place to learn. These are ninja trainees. Bill is going to be real sorry when they are doing graduate work on his ass!" Ninja hater. Posted by: Dean Esmay ionolsen20 Your site is very cognitive. I think you will have good future.:)www_4_2 Posted by: thomson at October 17, 2006 04:47 AM mnkol Posted by: penis enlargement pills at October 27, 2006 11:36 AM |
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