On 4/24/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Joseph Reagle wrote:
Given the latest fire-storm on questions of authority and peer review, this might make some smile! :):)
The article is a public humiliation of a hard-working 10-year-old student, and condones the bullying he receives from classmates. That kind of story makes you smile?
I'm trying to decide whether you're being ironic, or you don't get irony.
I guess it could just be that you think the piece misses its target - which I presume is the concept of Peer Review, coupled with the idea of "preparing" children for adult life by submitting to the kind of process they will find there. As far as I know, The Onion's readers are not primarily in the "5th-grade" age range, so it is presumably meant to be read with a certain degree of perspective, so I don't think it's "condoning" anything.
And just in case: you do realise it's fiction, don't you. ;)