http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/02/22/anime-breast-scam/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:49:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/02/22/anime-breast-scam/#comment-13002 Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Feb. 23, 2007: Unfailingly tolerant, compassionate, brightly misplaced Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:05:47 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/02/15/anime-breast-scam/#comment-13002 [...] One of the difficulties in covering manga from a comics-specific site lies in negotiating the anime-manga divide. There’s a fair amount of overlap, but I generally have to draw the line at straight-up anime coverage unless I can at least pretend that there’s some kind of connection to comics, however tenuous. Add to this the fact that the coverage of the alleged incident in question was coming from fansites normally less-than-experienced with investigative journalism, and I’d concluded that this story was one to pass on. It wasn’t until yesterday, when Heidi MacDonald and Tom Spurgeon each shined a spotlight on this story that I wondered if I might have made a mistake, and took a second look. [...] [...] One of the difficulties in covering manga from a comics-specific site lies in negotiating the anime-manga divide. There’s a fair amount of overlap, but I generally have to draw the line at straight-up anime coverage unless I can at least pretend that there’s some kind of connection to comics, however tenuous. Add to this the fact that the coverage of the alleged incident in question was coming from fansites normally less-than-experienced with investigative journalism, and I’d concluded that this story was one to pass on. It wasn’t until yesterday, when Heidi MacDonald and Tom Spurgeon each shined a spotlight on this story that I wondered if I might have made a mistake, and took a second look. [...]

]]> http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/02/22/anime-breast-scam/#comment-13001 Tom S. Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:33:26 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/02/15/anime-breast-scam/#comment-13001 This will turn off most legitimate anime cons from doing anything charity related besides what is in the their narrow educational missions. It has changed my opinion on whether Non-Profits should do charity auctions for other non-profits. This will turn off most legitimate anime cons from doing anything charity related besides what is in the their narrow educational missions. It has changed my opinion on whether Non-Profits should do charity auctions for other non-profits.

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