31st May 2005, 11:05 PM
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Wishing Guardian
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by nmskalmn
Just another tabloid article. The story was originally in the Shukan Shincho. Do you want to believe anything printed in a publication with this reputation?
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Instead, Focus and Shukan Shincho have shown time and time again that they confuse the freedom of the press with the freedom to act irresponsibly. From 1985 to 1995, for instance, they have been defendants in 21 lawsuits, legal complaints and court-awarded fines for everything from misrepresentation of facts to outright fabrications. Not that this comes as a great surprise: In one of the more infamous confessions by a senior Shinchosha executive, Juichi Saito, currently an editorial adviser and former Shukan Shincho chief editor, told a Japanese newspaper in 1995 that "there is no truth or justice" in the unsavory art of tabloid writing.
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http://www.weekender.co.jp/LatestEdi...0718/oped.html
http://www.jca.apc.org/~jimporen/mission08.html |
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