For sure, articles cater to their audience, but are we still writing articles on /b/ in 2011? This is like the articles in 2008 explaining this new phenomenon called "blogging" -- this isn't even new in the mainstream media, let alone our typical news sources. It's just repetitive garbage that could have been written with 15 minutes of copy-pasting from Encyclopedia Dramatica and 500 other previous articles on the topic.
There is a difference between focusing on a certain part of the whole and speaking as though that certain part is entirely representative of the whole. It's less like talking only about China in a discussion about Asia, and more like using the words "China" and "Asia" interchangeably. Touhou and tabletop games may not be of interest to a general audience, but these things don't necessarily have to be discussed in depth; they can be covered as briefly as a sentence stating that "4chan hosts a variety of boards catering to various interests, including video games, Japanese culture, and cooking."
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Or they are focusing on what they expect to be the most interesting to a general audience - not Touhou games.
For sure, articles cater to their audience, but are we still writing articles on /b/ in 2011? This is like the articles in 2008 explaining this new phenomenon called "blogging" -- this isn't even new in the mainstream media, let alone our typical news sources. It's just repetitive garbage that could have been written with 15 minutes of copy-pasting from Encyclopedia Dramatica and 500 other previous articles on the topic.
There is a difference between focusing on a certain part of the whole and speaking as though that certain part is entirely representative of the whole. It's less like talking only about China in a discussion about Asia, and more like using the words "China" and "Asia" interchangeably. Touhou and tabletop games may not be of interest to a general audience, but these things don't necessarily have to be discussed in depth; they can be covered as briefly as a sentence stating that "4chan hosts a variety of boards catering to various interests, including video games, Japanese culture, and cooking."
I think that's pretty much the definition of stereotyping and patronizing.