On Jun 25, 3:42 pm, benkasminbull...@gmail.com (Ben Bullock) wrote:
> In sci.lang.japan Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > (Only good-news items about kimono dressing and cherry blossom from
> > now on.)
> > (Tickets for the public seppuku go on salenext week...)
>
> It was surprising to me that something as blatantly sleazy as WaiWai
> was being published on the Mainichi news site in English & I did
> wonder how long it was going to last.

It was one of the few items on the website attracting any traffic. No
wonder it lasted a while.

I don't think its so unusual. Compare the main page of most
broadsheets, with the corresponding frontpage of their website. The
website version invariably has a somewhat tabloid skew.