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.
 
> 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