a dog-eared town

I know I go on and on about how “journalists” think they’re better than bloggers because they supposedly have “editors” that check things out. So it always amuses me when large “influential” newspapers are clueless about things they write.

In a campaign that is scheduled to begin online today, Subaru will promote the 2008 Impreza WRX by invoking the history, heritage and popular culture of its home country, Japan. The campaign, with a budget estimated at $10 million, is infused with aspects of Japanese anime films and manga comics; movies like “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Blade Runner”; and television series like “Heroes.”

Except, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a Chinese film. If you’ve seen it, like I have, you know it’s a Chinese movie and not Japanese.

I know it’s a small thing, but, don’t tell me how “journalists” are professionals and have their facts right. They don’t. Here’s a story about a Japanese car and Japanese culture and they use an Academy Award winning Chinese movie as an example. This was a huge hit all over the news, and yet the Times can’t get it right.

Makes me wonder what else they can’t get right.