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With more than 100k tweets, #“I don’t want to pay money to (public broadcaster) NHK anymore” is now trending in Japan. Why is NHK facing this wave of antipathy? Users criticize that in the current debate on links between LDP and Unification Church 1/7 #もうＮＨＫに金払いたくない
NHK is trying to keep the issue on a very low profile and once it is mentioned “by the way”, coverage is taking sides with LDP by just reporting official statements without any proper contextualization. On top of that, parliamentary debates on the issue are “hidden” by simply 2/7
not live-broadcasting it (as done usually). In fact, #agendacutting like this has happened repeatedly in the past. I documented one case in the run-up to the #TokyoOlympics when NHK news cut the #Covid19 risk in Tokyo. The Games had to be saved from cancellation/postponement 3/7
Absolutely agree. As many were wondering about the peculiar way the JP mainstream media is reporting about the motives of Abe’s assassinator, i.e. not mentioning that “particular religious group”, and as someone researching JP media and public discourse, here some thoughts(1/10)
This avoidance of concrete names/ topics (called #agendacutting ) seems less motivated by a social responsibility toward that group (e.g. bc of fear of hate crimes) but rather by a fear that someone influential will get in trouble if that specific name was made widely public 2/10
When Nippon Kaigi became a topic in 2016, mentioning even its name was taboo for the major JP media for a long time. At that time it was likely out of consideration for then-PM Abe. Only when it wasn’t possible anymore to avoid it, some outlets mentioned NK, but marginally 3/10
