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[dzuunmod]

Heh. The automated system for classifying text used by the Gazette trips up.

Also, Toronto Star: What? I know I say this a lot, but that is just about the dumbest piece I've read in a major daily in a long time. And it's the top story on the homepage right now to boot.

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[sabatoa]

I'm not following your point on the first link. Help me out?

[dzuunmod]

It's about racism and "driving while black", but if you look at the URL and the heading above the letter, it's been categorized as an article about "Cars".

[sabatoa]

ahh, okay I'm with ya now.

[wendykh]

Yes, they live in harmoney because we have laws and regulations and they know there's nothing they can do but STFU and get over it. Good.

[wendykh]

and yes I know how to spell harmony

[dzuunmod]

Wait - what?

[wendykh]

I read the first paragraph of the second article and that was all I needed to know it was stupid. This is my response to the first paragraph.

[say_it_with_pie]

Wat? That Star article was retarded. And SO LONG!!

[dzuunmod]

I think that's part of the reason the rest of the country hates on TO so much, right there!

I read parts of it to Hiedi last night and we both immediately had the same thought: Here in Whitehorse, we have the sketchiest porn shop you ever did see right across an alley from a church. The stuff mentioned in that article is by no means Toronto- or even big city-specific!

[say_it_with_pie]

Hey, Toronto didn't write that article, some freshman staff writer at the Star did. Toronto probably read that article and was like, "STFU!" as well.

Once when I was interning at the National Post, I had to feed 3-6 year olds ice cream and popsicles from my trunk in order to get adorable soundbites about frozen treats from them. It was so lame, so humiliating, and the worst article ever. So yeah, maybe it's just something about newspaper editors and summertime fluff pieces.

[dzuunmod]

Oh, I get that. And I also get that yesterday was the last day of a three-day weekend in Ontario and everything there was probably moving so slow.

I'm not saying it's (all) justified, only that this sort of piece (which appeared on the front page of the best-selling newspaper in Toronto) contributes to the perception that people elsewhere have of the place. This is the best that the Star could do to sell newspapers to Torontonians yesterday, yanno?

Fox News isn't all Americans, but that's not going to stop you and me from mocking the United States for Fox News, is it?