Just Call Me "Gregor"

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.]