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  • If there is one thing I cannot stand, it's the LOCAL FUCKING NEWS!  May the one who shames Asimov's name burning in fucking hell!

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #14713  by SineSwiper
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 7:40 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0403/resp ... ">Asimov’s Science Fiction accused of being full of "stories about sex, drugs, and molestation."</a>

If there is one thing I cannot stand, it's the LOCAL FUCKING NEWS! May the one who shames Asimov's name burning in fucking hell!</div>

 #14714  by SineSwiper
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 7:44 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp? ... 1645394</a>

Here's the "news" link.</div>

 #14715  by G-man Joe
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 8:25 am
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Would you let your 13 yr old daughter read a magazine with a lot of sexual content in it?</div>

 #14716  by Flip
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 8:41 am
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Please direct your anger accordingly, its not the local news you hate, but the whole damn media industry in general. The just love to twist every stupid detail for their own 'riteousness'. Makes me want to hurl. : /</div>

 #14717  by SineSwiper
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 8:55 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>If it was science fiction and/or educational, yes. This is Asimov's Science Fiction, not hentai.</div>

 #14718  by SineSwiper
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 8:55 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Already wrote my hate mail to them.</div>

 #14719  by G-man Joe
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:02 am
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>POINT --> The stories had adult content in it, regardless if it was an Asimov mag. BTW, he doesn't write all those stories, they are compilations of stories from other sci-fi writers. Some are Hentai infulenced. *smirks*</div>

 #14722  by SineSwiper
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:09 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>RTFA.</div>

 #14723  by G-man Joe
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:24 am
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I'll make it easier for you : "Young girls with no panties, young girls in white socks, young girls looking at his wank-mags with him, young girls doing it with one another while he watched."</div>

 #14724  by SineSwiper
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:30 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Wrong article. That's the one with lack of fact checking, lies, and totally out-of-context sensationalism. Read the rebuttal.</div>

 #14725  by G-man Joe
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:34 am
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Wrong article? It's your link you provided. Even the Asimov people say it's not for children.</div>
 #14727  by SineSwiper
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:01 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>One, I provided two articles, but in your blindness, you have ignored the first one. I merely proved the second link as proof and comparison of the first one.

Two, the point is not if it is a children's mag. ASF points out that it's not labeled under Children, but Science, and QSP carries other mags for adults, such as Esquire, Vogue, GQ, and Elle. IOW, if the parent was appalled at the content of the stories for her 13-year-old, she should have ordered something from the Children section. (Of course, I really didn't have to tell you all of this if you bothered to read the first three paragraphs of the rebuttal. You know, sometimes it really pays to RTFA, instead of degenerating every single thread into a pointless argument.) There are also other points, but again, they are detailed in the link provided, and explain it better than I can.

Three, I don't know if you do this on purpose, but you seem to completely stray from the point very often. One would think that you're just trying to ignore information for the purpose of your own argument, which is, ironically, the type of behavior that I'm so pissed off at the news article in the first place.</div>

 #14733  by Flip
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:19 am
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>me too : )</div>

 #14736  by Blotus
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:53 am
<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Sex, drugs, and molestation? Where do I sign up?</div>

 #14737  by Kupek
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:58 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>We're passing the clipboard around. Wait your turn.</div>

 #14742  by Lox
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:27 pm
<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's ridiculous. I may write the news station a letter just out of the principle.</div>

 #14743  by Flip
 Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:44 pm
<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>especially since the station called Asimov, who was willing to talk, then never followed up. News stations just LOOOOVE to say things like, "We contacted such and such and they refused to comment." But since Asimov was willing to talk the station just never bothered to called back. GAY!</div>

 #14780  by NEO_Ronin121
 Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:56 pm
<div style='font: 10pt ; text-align: left; '>me too!</div>