good news, bad news, I’m yesterday’s news

The good news?

I got quoted in the National Post.
(That’s a national newspaper here in Canada, for those of you who weren’t aware - although it is admittedly the lesser one.)

The bad news? (get ready there’s a bit of it).

They misspelled my name (I’m not Beth Mather, if you weren’t already aware).

And I didn’t actually know they were gonna quote me, since I just commented on something on Torontoist, and they slapped that together into an article. (Which is pretty much the most lazy and lame way of writing something, I have to say. In fact, I think they told us not to write our essays like that in University, or we’d get kicked out.)

And I’m on the wrong side of the argument, apparently. (Obviously I don’t think so, but whoever it is at the City desk does - which doesn’t actually surprise me, because my whole point was that Toronto media is a select group of sheltered individuals who don’t reflect the people of their city in the slightest. So I’m not surprised she’s shocked at a little criticism, and sides with the elitists.)

At least they spelled my name wrong.
Maybe I should move that one up into the good news column.