JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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yabits
No, the counter-argument is no lean at all. Perfectly balanced. (Something we know Fox is not.)
Additionally, the other media outlets would necessarily "lean left" in relation to the full conservative tilt at Fox.
Case closed.
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yabits
Ah, so that's why such a menagerie of losers feel they can beat him while the smart ones (Mitch Daniel, Christie, etc.) have stayed away.
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yabits
He "could argue?" You mean as in the expression "for the sake of argument." In other words, not to be taken as fact.
And you "rest your case" on that opinion? How silly.
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yabits
No he didn't. He was telling us he had a problem with the hypocrisy -- not the affair itself. Looks like you got that basic fact wrong.
That's what reporting starts with. If it leaves it at that, it will be like serving a meal that has no taste to it, and people will not eat it, much less buy it. Not unless they are starved for other choices, which they are not.
And I think you got it wrong again. It has little or nothing to do with electronic media, and more to do with looking at reporting as a business with a bottom line. The commodification of "news,"in other words. The reporter does not have to look good -- but they have to serve up something that people want to eat. Failing that, they have to put on a show.
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yabits
@The Truth Matters
I like your handle. The truth does matter. It should be the only thing that matters, in fact. And it is something that so many people can not or will not accept.
I've given a fair amount of thought to this thread and the discussion of bias. I believe it is a simple fact made plain by common sense that there are multiple sides to every issue. It is no coincidence that I became a liberal around the same time the formal education I received helped me hone my critical reading and thinking skills.
A journal or writer who presents multiple sides of an issue and weighs them equally will definitely be called "liberal" or (worse) "left-leaning" by today's modern right-wingers. The Fox News and Limbaughs of the world will not give any time or weight to points of view that are not their own. In fact, they make a special effort NOT to do it. The conservatives must have a pre-defined outcome that shows them to be infallible. By contrast, I continually see a Chris Matthews or a Dylan Ratigan agree with conservatives and criticize Democrats on a number of issues.
That is why it really gets interesting when two conservatives start to disagree with each other, like Gingrich and Romney are into now. Both are total hypocrites who pretend to be holier-than-thou. It's kind of like King Herod and Pontius Pilate squaring off to see who's going to lead the scribes and Pharisees.
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yabits
Lothian has asked pointed and tough questions to President Obama. But he's never been overtly rude as the Fox interviewer who kept interrupting President Obama -- something he'd never do a conservative guest he fawns over.
This is just the typical example of conservative lack of forthrightness in trying to cherry-pick out a question that isn't as tough as some of his other ones. I guess it can't be helped: any question that includes the thoughts of Cain and Bachmann will automatically qualify as a "softball," as conservatives are quick to point out.
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yabits
The only network that fails that test outright is Fox.
Because of their obvious and blatant conservative bias, they throw only softball questions to their conservative guests while oftentimes are rude to any liberals/Democrats who come on. Even MS-NBC puts tough questions to their liberal and Democratic guests. Anyone who saw Piers Morgan's interview with Michael Moore last Thursday on CNN, to name but one recent example, saw Morgan indicating his firm disagreement and skepticism with Moore on many of his points.
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yabits
Amazing, Willard.
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yabits
The poll is invalid because people were asked to judge "reporters" as a generic whole without any specifics. Are respondents lumping in non-reporting commentators like Sean Hannity, Chris Matthews, etc., in with the mix? (Who knows?) Were people asked to evaluate individual news outlets? How about the breakdown of responses by education? (I know some people who never watch the news who will nonetheless claim it is biased without having the ability to cite the slightest bit of empirical evidence.)
On matters that are somewhat subjective such as this one, I will follow my own reason and judgment rather than a herd of sheep -- or lemmings. PBS's NewsHour is about as straight-up meticulously fair reporting as it gets.
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yabits
Perceived "liberal" bias does not equal actual liberal bias. It is only because the conservative morons -- and anyone who believes Fox is "fair and balanced," according to your statement, is a moron -- felt the news wasn't skewed enough to their liking that they created Fox. Fox, in other words, was a right-wing response to fair and accurate reporting.
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yabits
And now some of the same fools are clamoring to see the president's college grades. As if accomplishments like heading up the Harvard Law Review wasn't indication enough.
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yabits
I commend "the media" for reminding the public of this fact.
It is also a fact that Gingrich, in 1988, filed charges against the then-Speaker, Jim Wright, for exactly the same infraction that got Gingrich in so much trouble later. One can only draw the conclusion that either Gingrich is stupid (which he is not) or morally craven.
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yabits
The OWS movement is not going away.
Once people demand and elect candidates who will truly work for their interests, the candidate's party will not be so relevant. It takes too much money to get elected today and so the politicians are beholden to those who fund their campaigns -- and that isn't ordinary working people.
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yabits
Marc Pitzke's "The Republicans' Farcical Candidates: A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses" at Spiegel Online International provides a capsule description of the GOP presidential field in the title.
Says Pitzke, "They lie. They cheat. They exaggerate. They bluster. They say one idiotic, ignorant, outrageous thing after another. They've shown such stark lack of knowledge -- political, economic, geographic, historical -- that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein and even cause their fellow Republicans to cringe. ...What a nice club that is. A club of liars, cheaters, adulterers, exaggerators, hypocrites and ignoramuses. "A starting point for a chronicle of American decline," was how David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, described the current Republican race."
It is better to employ the word "idiot" and risk bruising an ego or two than actually giving any of the Republican idiots the keys to the car and causing serious harm to millions of people.
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yabits
Thank you, JapanToday, for sharing this interesting and moving story.
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yabits
There IS plenty of blame to go around, and what blame is to be apportioned to the Democratic side is because they failed to act as Democrats. Instead, they followed the Republican Pied Piper's call of massive deregulation of so many industries, signed terribly harmful "free-trade" agreements, wimped out on things like universal health care, etc.
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yabits
It takes more than just disagreeing politically for a person to be called out as acting like an idiot.
I do think twice about it. But I'm a liberal and have been witness to decades of hate-filled, anti-liberal invective in a discourse that was dragged down long before I became active in it. There has been a hate-filled strain in American politics for decades now, and it's not coming from the liberals. As FDR proclaimed: "They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred."
I believe a positive, productive discourse can only be had among people of good will who genuinely want to achieve the outcome of a better life for all Americans. When a Herman Cain proclaims that "If you're not rich, it's your own damn fault," I am afraid I am witness to a delusional sociopath, completely out of touch with reality. And people think this is a suitable candidate to follow people like FDR?
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yabits
There is a vast difference between Clinton and Cain despite their common moral failings. That fact alone probably counts for a lot of the confusion.
Clinton had and has a grasp of the issues facing us, and the ability to articulate them, an ability that is completely missing in Cain. Cain was a one-issue person -- "nine-nine-nine" -- and even that "solution" was deemed crazy by 99 out of 100 reputable economists.
I get it. If I had gotten behind Herman Cain, and I had no sense of self-responsibility, I'd be trying to take it out on other people too.
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yabits
As far as Clinton the candidate went, I totally withdrew my support for him in '92 as soon as he claimed he didn't inhale. (Anyone who bought or buys his "did not inhale" story is an idiot.)
Two significant things happened since the campaign of 1992, however. First was that Clinton won the White House despite his moral problems. His presidency must therefore be evaluated in terms of its accomplishments -- which ended up in his winning a second term -- independently from his moral failings.
Secondly, Clinton came out and admitted he had a problem and sought help for it. (Cain, by contrast, is still in denial.)
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yabits
Well, judging by the way how Obama's victory has inspired such constant, hate-filled invective and lies from a motley crowd of ever-changing identities, I would have to say that the Democratic campaign of 2008 was the race that launched a thousand twits.
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