Great selection of comics on the web:
In Taiwan english papers I like the CP comics.
I thought that was a little weird too, especially since the subject’s not something that has been in the news here. Stupid letter really. I am sure it is something that someone has sent to every newspaper, only the Times is the only one that actually fell for it.[/quote]
If you Google the author you will find he gets letters to the editor in a lot of publications. Even the Taipei times before with Terrorism not a `nuisance’.[/quote]
That letter writer, Miguel A. Guanipa, is a most likely a rightwing nutcase conservative from USA, and he writes to about 100 newspapers every week by email with the same mass mailing letters about his rightwing conservative agenda and hopes these unsuspecting newspapers will print his stuff. Many do.
From PakistanTimes to Japan Times, to Taipei Times, to many Internet chatooms, anywhere he can get his stuff printed, over and over again, he will do that. He is likely a retired civil servant with nothing to do but rant about his rightwing views and he uses the Internet and email to get his views a wide audience.
He is NOT a reader of the Taipei Times. Why they print his letters is strange. [Timmy explained it above, thanks.]
Those are not letters to editors he sends out, they are mass mailings, and he has succeeded in fooling editors around the world. Yes, google him and you can see how far he has reached, globally.
The Boston Globe should write an article about him: RETIRED MAN FIRES OFF INTERNET LETTERS AT SPEED OF LIGHT
[quote=“Flicka”]
I thought that was a little weird too, especially since the subject’s not something that has been in the news here. Stupid letter really. I am sure it is something that someone has sent to many newspapers worldwide, only the Times is the only one that actually fell for it.[/quote]
The Taipei Times was not the only one that fell for it. Hundreds of papers around the world print this jerk’s mass mailings…See above
Ever notice how in all newspapers in Taiwan, both the Chinese language dailies and the English dailies, the only naked breast shots or nipple shots that are printed are photos of Western women, never Asian women (except for that famous Kiki model who posed naked in Shinmending a few years ago and got her nips on page 2 of the Taipei Times in full living color. [LINK PLEASE!]
Why can’t local newspapers show nipples or breasts of Asian women, but can (and do) show naked Western women? Fixations? Fetishes? Bias? Protection of the local daughers? Never quite understood why Western breatsts are okay to show in newspapers here but not Asian breatsts? Never. It’s as if Asian women do not have nipples, in the eyes of the censors here… Funny!
No. I’ve seen Asian nipples in the TT.
Brian
No. I’ve seen Asian nipples in the TT.
Brian[/quote]
Really? Just that Kiki AV model who did a nude walk thru Hsinmending a few years ago.
taipeitimes.com/News/local/a … 6/07/88977
taipeitimes.com/News/local/p … 0000018888
[See Kiko Wu ]
Kiko Wu is a Chinese American adult model, dancer, and actress.
In June of 2001, she was involved in a scandal when she had herself filmed naked on a busy public street and in a shopping mall in Taipei
(And also, the TT is not your average Taiwan newspaper, it is a progressive, open-minded publication that lives under a different cultural umbrella than the other rags on this island. So, not including the TT, have you ever seen female Asian nipples shots in any local newspaper here? Never.
African princesses parading naked for the King, yes, in the CHINA Post and others. Euro babes and porn babes from North America, naked news and all that, but never a Chinese woman naked in any newspaper here. They always put mosaics up over the Chinese or Taiwanese women’s breasts or nipples, but not over Caucasian women. Just wonder why the double standards? Confucian Puritanism?
[quote=“LittleBuddhaTW”]I sent a response to the TT, but I doubt they’ll publish it. [b]Edited by moderator as links removed[/b].
It’s sad that that kind of vitriol and ridiculous, baseless assumptions (like the link the author attempted to make between homosexuality and pedophiles) would be published by any newspaper, but especially by one that supposedly supports the more “progressive” elements in Taiwanese politics and society.[/quote]
They did publish his letter today.
Also they published a second letter on the same issue, explaining that the writer in Whitinsville Mass, Migual A. Guanipa, was totally off the mark with his chain letter exposed now.
taipeitimes.com/News/editori … 2003273009
Dear Editors:
After reading the letter (“Same-sex marriage troubling,” Sept. 20, page 8) I was quite disappointed that the Taipei Times would print such bigoted vitriol…
SECOND LETTER, from London:
taipeitimes.com/News/editori … 2003273071
Chain faux letter writer in Boston, replies from Taipei and London, global village reax!
I heard that Laurence Eyton quitted the Taipei Times’ Managing Editor last week, is it true?
How stupid the newspaper let him go. I really cannot imagine this paper without Eyton, what can the readers expect?
Like so many people on this bulletin board the above poster has gotten his rumors and his facts all wrong.
Eyton didn’t quit. He was fired for acting like a idiot and insulting the management.
Bascially he got caught sending rude emails to would be employees in which he ridiculed the paper’s new bosses. And all becasue they wouldn’t let him re-employ a certain individual who was fired from the paper four years ago for the doing the same type of thing.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
Eyton fired? That is a sad, sad day for the Taipei Times. Or rather, its readers.
Sources from TT said tonight that Martin Williams, a good friend of Eyton,
has been appointed as Managing Editor of the newspaper.
How silly Eyton was. He always like to attack and insult his bosses. I really do not understand what kind of his “LOYALTY” is. And I also do not know where he can find a better payment job than TT in Taiwan.
[quote=“RogerGo”]Sources from TT said tonight that Martin Williams, a good friend of Eyton,
has been appointed as Managing Editor of the newspaper.
How silly Eyton was. He always like to attack and insult his bosses. I really do not understand what kind of his “LOYALTY” is. And I also do not know where he can find a better payment job than TT In Taiwan.[/quote]
And are you that “source” at the TT? 
And maybe his bosses deserved it … and maybe he was right to warn prospective employees. If I had applied for a job at the TT and didn’t know that the management were such boobs, I’d sure like to hear from someone who worked there who could tell me what it was like. Fortunately, I already know well enough not to work for the TT.
[quote=“LittleBuddhaTW”][quote=“RogerGo”]Sources from TT said tonight that Martin Williams, a good friend of Eyton,
has been appointed as Managing Editor of the newspaper.
How silly Eyton was. He always like to attack and insult his bosses. I really do not understand what kind of his “LOYALTY” is. And I also do not know where he can find a better payment job than TT In Taiwan.[/quote]
And are you that “source” at the TT?
And maybe his bosses deserved it … and maybe he was right to warn prospective employees. If I had applied for a job at the TT and didn’t know that the management were such boobs, I’d sure like to hear from someone who worked there who could tell me what it was like. Fortunately, I already know well enough not to work for the TT.[/quote]
Exactly. What kind of “LOYALTY” should be reserved for the bunch that fail so miserably to make the TT a better paper?
Eyton is an excellent journalist, writer and political pundit. That he was not afraid to call a spade a spade and point out the many, many failings and shortcomings of his bosses only lends him additional integrity.
Instead of doing the stupid “losing face” thing and firing him, the TT bumshufflers would have been better-served looking inward and trying to show at least a modicum of professionalism.
Oh well. Yet another bumbling fuck-up from the TT. Why are we not surprised?
Eyton, if you’re reading this: Best of luck to you. You deserve it, IMO.
If this is true, it will be a huge and irreparable loss. Without Eyton at the helm, the Taipei Times will surely sink rapidly to the same level as those other two rags, and life for expatriates here will become immeasurably poorer.
Any word from “Timmy” on this personnel change?
I doubt we readers will see any difference in the way the newspaper is presented each day, other than missing those very good Eyton editorials that were one of a kind and probably never to be seen in Taiwan again, in such a well-written editorial way. It’s a sad day in Taipei when the bosses get rid of a man like that. But the newspaper will likely continue as is. Newspapers run themselves after a while, and there is never any one key person that makes the paper what it is. A huge team puts it together. But too bad, the management decided to toss the best editorial writer on Earth, bar none!
I’m too busy to think, let alone add much insightful commentary.
I will confirm that Laurence Eyton, who I respect a great deal, is no longer with the TT. And I will confirm that Martin Williams has taken his position. As far as all the other nonsense that Backpacker and RogerGo have posted, I will only say that they would do better to be silent. And as for Little Buddha and his snide remarks, all I can say is this: I hope you find your happy place someday.
I will also add that Laurence, Martin and myself have spent many nights drinking and bullshitting about politics, our jobs and life in general together, and it is too bad that we will no longer have Laurence’s vast knowledge to call upon at work. But I am certain he will do well in his other endeavors.
As far as all of the internal politics go, I will not comment. But I hope that if you are not familiar with the poeple and the issues involved, then you will recognize that you haven’t much right to pass judgment.
That’s all I will say about that.
Don’t worry about that – all will be revealed in the fullness of time. Probably not here, though. 
A sorry, pathetic Lin family tale.
What’s it like working at an essentially headless, eviscerated paper, anyhow? And who’ll be the next to go?
Don’t worry about that – all will be revealed in the fullness of time. Probably not here, though.
A sorry, pathetic Lin family tale.
What’s it like working at an essentially headless, eviscerated paper, anyhow? And who’ll be the next to go?[/quote]
And then, timmy, are you now the deputy M.E.?