Re: OT: is this a typical Japanese thing or a global trend?
- From: "necoandjeff" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:24:06 +0900
Marc Adler wrote:
> Pieter Mioch wrote:
>
>> By MARK SCHREIBER
>> Asahi Geino (July 14)
>
> Truth-skirting, alarmist, and sensationalist journalism that treats
> bizarre exceptions as common phenomena pointing to "disturbing trends"
> is most definitely a a global thing. Foreigners swallowing such yellow
> journalism hook, line, and sinker out of some weird desire to believe
> the worst possible things about a country, on the other hand, seems to
> be restricted to Japan.
I don't know about that last bit. As you point out, sensationalist, alarmist
journalism is universal. A disturbingly high number of people believing the
trash (whether it is about their own country or someone else's) seems to be
just as universal to me.
Jeff
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