Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:28:10 -0500 From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: On Japanese reporters Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:28:07 +0900 Message-ID: References: <1114609257.706438.50200@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 X-Trace: sv3-prJtVaClNIMN7brWCxZ2gxFeEC4p3IcNNbDrCRrEmirHou1y13+NzUrdGuiXyR0Vkps5kOJmmCv21fg!+o7l7AXhujcjITvKsBEYHhaVVEtkVTjZFfFpYyOvPab0ci+wQzWw8RPLczG82nnMXjQwvdk= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:26867 On 27 Apr 2005 06:40:57 -0700, "John W." brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: >I've been watching the news as much as possible (I love the Internet), >and I've noticed something I don't remember from years ago when I lived >in Japan. The reporters always seem to have notebooks and rely heavily >on them as they report. Has this always been the case, or is it a >recent trend? If they're stuck out there on a chuukei assignment where things are changing pretty quickly and they're being called on to give updates without time to prepare, then it's pretty normal. -- Michael Cash "Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash. Clowns and jokers." Prof. Ernest T. Bass Mount Pilot College