<jimbreen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 May 2012 16:10:33 UTC+10, Band Beyond Desu  wrote:
>> <jimbobreen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> .............. And speaking of desperation,
>>> is the poor old JT so hard up for copy that it has to solicit
>>> shit like that?
>> 
>> Yup, it's way into the Jean Pearce "Getting Things Done" or Jane Rees
>> brain-deaf pattern of simply continuing to run retread,
>> entitlement-mentality columnists for no other reason on Earth other than
>> that they have for years/decades, so why stop now (or at least until they
>> voluntarily retire or die)? I do like Amy Chavez though, so she is exempt
>> from my wrath.
> 
> I actually enjoy Gregory Clark's pot-stirring. I know a lot of gai-people
> don't.

OK, right, I like Gregory Clark too, and his colleague Mochizuki-san on the
NBR forums list gets extra points for putting gaijin pot-stirrer/fake
journo Christopher Johnson in his place at an early stage a few months
back.

http://nbrforums.nbr.org/foraui/message.aspx?LID=5&PID=41046&srt=EmailDate&MID=41222

>  
>> Absent critical faculties on the part of the page editors, methinks no one
>> wants to cross/raise the issue with the Ogasawara family who runs the
>> paper, the latest being daughter Yukiko who had the thing handed down to
>> her several years ago from her father Toshiaki in a predestined
>> inheritance-like fashion, not because she had any -- gasp -- journalism
>> experience. So, take it up with her.
> 
> When I was living in Japan I subscribed to the Yomiuri, mainly because:
> (a) I liked all the inserts (Independent, Le Monde, LA Times, etc.)
> (b) the winsome young lady who knocked on the door and signed me up.
> I mentioned this to Jack Halpern, and he was shocked I was reading
> something so right-wing. Seems I was supposed to read the JT or Asahi.
> 
> Speaking of the Yomiuri, if you remember the "Pera Pera Penguin" page,
> Hitomi Hirayama who wrote that page for years is in Melbourne later 
> this month and we're having lunch one day.
>  
> Jim

I understand the JT-Yom dichotomy, and believe that inserts aside, taken
together they represent the two poles of the Japanese polity, much like
Yasukuni Shrine and Shibuya girls.