On Oct 13, 11:50 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> chuckers wrote:
> > On Oct 12, 4:01 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Argh! I almost used "fair and balanced" and "Japan Times" in the same
> >> headline.
>
> >>http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091010f1.html
>
> > Maybe I am a bit thick or I have been to Debito's site too often and
> > only
> > seeing one-sided arguments have warped my brain so much I don't notice
> > them as much but which bit isn't "fair and balanced"?
>
> > Okay, so Savoie is mentioned quite a bit more than the Yoshida guy
> > mentioned in the picture but that is probably just pandering to the
> > expected audience.
>
> Sorry to have confused you.  My reference was to the fact that "The
> Japan Times" and "journalism" are mutually exclusive terms.  Therefore,
> finding something refreshingly pretty well written and not written by a
> Keidanren or Justice Ministry flunky and translated ... or a one-sided
> English language screed written by people who would never get into print
> in a real English-speaking / reading / writing / thinking country is
> cause for comment.
>

Ah, okay.  It was indeed sacrasm as I thought but in the other
direction from where I was looking.

Many many years ago, I actually enjoyed reading "The Japan Times"
because it had a sampling
of all kinds of news from all over the world.  Some of it was a bit of
the "News of the Weird"
kind but that was reasonably amusing.

The biggest problem with it was the "news" was more often "olds" for
Japan local stuff because
it has to be translated.

I only look at the website now for the comics.  Roger Dahl is fairly
amusing but Gwen Muranaka
not so much.  Someone needs to help her with her Japanese if this is
anything to go by:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/images/cartoons/thumbs/ca20090927gm.jpg