Japanese Freelance Journalists Fired for Criticizing TEPCO

This video profiles some protests against TEPCO and it goes on to interview the reporters who are covering the story. He says that Japanese Journalists will not criticize TEPCO because it owns the Japanese Media through advertising dollars.

This is a worldwide problem, especially in the U.S. with corporations such as Dow, Monsanto, Koch and the big Petroleum/Coal companies undue influence on major media.

But this explains why the Japanese media is so low key on it's reporting- and it is a warning to the U.S. and other nations that we cannot rely on major -advertiser driven- media to report the truth even in a desperate, life or death event if it involves corporate misbehavior.

We have seen this in the U.S. with BP. What if it were nuclear instead?

Link to Al Jazeera Video

Originally posted by Stratus9
This video profiles some protests against TEPCO and it goes on to interview the reporters who are covering the story. He says that Japanese Journalists will not criticize TEPCO because it owns the Japanese Media through advertising dollars.

This is a worldwide problem, especially in the U.S. with corporations such as Dow, Monsanto, Koch and the big Petroleum/Coal companies undue influence on major media.

But this explains why the Japanese media is so low key on it's reporting- and it is a warning to the U.S. and other nations that we cannot rely on major -advertiser driven- media to report the truth even in a desperate, life or death event if it involves corporate misbehavior.

We have seen this in the U.S. with BP. What if it were nuclear instead?

Link to Al Jazeera Video

TEPCO have been lying since day one.
The reporters have had 3 weeks to ask questions and they havent asked the right ones. The reporters should have already been sacked for incompitence.
This nuclear disaster story should have already been told.

F&S for showing me the japanese medias incompetience

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This video definitely answers the 'why' in the matter of tepid, lay down and take it journalism we have seen coming out of Japan. ty

Originally posted by Stratus9
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This video definitely answers the 'why' in the matter of tepid, lay down and take it journalism we have seen coming out of Japan. ty

Once upon a time , a journalist actually went out and got a story
Unless these reporters(as they arent journalist) had a gun held to their heads, they could have gotten a story.
No video other than that of one of them having a gun held to their head would make me change my opinion.

And here is other information regarding the Japanese Authorities holding back information from the people:

(Japanese) Govt holding radiation data back / IAEA gets info, but public doesn't

Link to Story

The Meteorological Agency has been withholding forecasts on dispersal of radioactive substances from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant despite making the forecasts every day, it was learned Monday.

Meteorological institutions in some European countries such as Germany and Norway have been publishing their own radiation dispersal forecasts on their Web sites based on their own meteorological observations.

Nuclear experts at home and abroad are criticizing the Japanese government for not releasing its own forecasts, raising new questions about the government's handling of information on the nuclear crisis.

More at link, above.