by Adam Johnson/Fairness and Accuracy in ReportingJournalism how-not-to: New York Times (6/7/18) puts the attack inthe headline, reveals it’s a smear in paragraph 20.A reporter at the most influential paper in English-language media appears to not know the difference between a government “tightly editing” and selectively editing video.New York Times reporter … [Read more...] about NYT Carries IDF Attack on Murdered Medic–Reveals It’s a Smear in 20th Paragraph
Japan: man freed after 45 years on death row could go back to jail
Tokyo high court rules against 2014 decision that conviction of Iwao Hakamada was unsafeA Japanese man who was freed in 2014 after spending 45 years on death row could be sent back to prison after a court overturned the decision to grant him a retrial.Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to hang in 1968 for the murders two years earlier of a company president, his wife and their … [Read more...] about Japan: man freed after 45 years on death row could go back to jail
In Japan, Too, Outrageous Is the New Normal
By Koichi NakanoMr. Nakano is a political scientist in Japan/June 11, 2018 TOKYO — A sketchy land deal implicating the prime minister’s wife is revealed, then a vast cover-up by government officials. The relevant minister acknowledges the wrongdoing, apologizes and says he will fulfill his duty — by refunding a year’s worth of his salary as cabinet minister, or about … [Read more...] about In Japan, Too, Outrageous Is the New Normal
Palestinian Solidarity Poem. Rafeef Ziadah: “We Teach Life, Sir!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8WwB9tvBWM Jewish Voice for PeaceToday, my body was a TV'd massacre. Today, my body was a TV'd massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits. Today, my body was a TV'd massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response. And I perfected my English and I learned … [Read more...] about Palestinian Solidarity Poem. Rafeef Ziadah: “We Teach Life, Sir!”
Today in Japan (from SNA)
May 31, 2018 Shinzo Abe and Trump on cars, the LDP and Moritomo Gakuen/Kake Gakuen, Kept raise electricity rates, Keidanren pushes to increase the consumption tax...May 23, 2018 Governor of Ehime releases documents exploding P.M. Abe's lies, Finance Ministry releases documents which show Akie Abe's involvement in the Moritomo Gakuen scandal, Prime Minister Abe refuses to … [Read more...] about Today in Japan (from SNA)