Jan Wong can eat my Northern-educated ass
Warren Kinsella picked up on this last week and I meant to post on it, but it kept on slipping my mind. Now before anyone thinks I’m just dropping Kinsella’s name to draw attention, let me explain why it is I hate Jan Wong…
Back in 1997 (I believe) Jan Wong decided to do a piece on teenage smoking. She was determined to get to the bottom of this newfound crisis, so she dug down deep and came up with one of the most thorough and even-handed plans in the history of investigative journalism. She visited my high school during class and interviewed a half-dozen grade 9 students who were outside smoking. From this exhaustive and balanced study she was cunningly able to extrapolate and generalize about the behaviour of the entire student body at the school.
That’s right; Jan Wong interviewed a handful of grade nine losers and used that as a preface to call pretty much every student at the school a juvenile delinquent who was more concerned with getting high and drinking during labour shortages than anything else.
Needless to say, at Northern her work was not well received; and yet for ten years she continued to publish her bombastic and unfounded drivel. I take endless pleasure in seeing her being exposed for the hack she is.