While I’d obviously prefer that they did some journalism once in a while, I never tire of Anime News Network’s ability to troll their own readership. And for their readership to live in an bubble of their own otakudom.
Last week, Anime Insider, a magazine I had never heard of until learning of its demise, closed its doors. So ANN reported the news, but in the usual discussion thread, their editor-in-chief Zac Bertschy, declared that you could only wring your hands and be sad, under threat of banning, because he was sad. (I don’t think anyone’s braved pointing out that the success of Zac’s own website is, in part, responsible of the loss of his friend’s jobs).
And lo, everyone was sad for this magazine, and the anime industry at large, ignoring the fact that it is a Wizard Entertainment publication, and so it’s demise likely has more to do with the shitstorm that is currently enveloping that company as a whole (one that has been building for the last year and goes beyond the shitstorm most printed periodicals are dealing with), than the magazine itself. None of which was mentioned in the article as published.
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