During the Wuhan virus crisis, television wide shows and Yahoo! News repeatedly highlight fear-inducing comments while failing to convey important government information on subsidies, loans, employment support, and other relief measures. Reporting these systems clearly, even for the elderly, is the true duty of the media.

May 3, 2020
Why is Yahoo! News not taking up at all the information being issued by the government?
It should publish the mechanisms of subsidies and loans for Wuhan virus countermeasures in a way that even elderly people can understand.
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A scolding for biased news!
May 1, 2020, 22:24:17
The proper form of reporting.

Wide shows are also dragging everything out with corona, aren’t they?
They should take up other topics a little more.

Professor Harue Okada gives her view on the extension of the state of emergency declaration.
“What I am worried about is this autumn and winter.”
Sports Hochi.

Ms. Okada.
The number of infected people is on a downward trend, the basic reproduction number has fallen below one, and you are running out of material with which to make unreasonable complaints.
That is why you make such remarks, isn’t it?
But, Ms. Okada.
There is no point in worrying.
Leave it to the government and the expert committee.
If the information from South Korea and China is correct, it generally settles down in about three months, so in Japan too it will generally settle down by the end of May.
By autumn and winter, it will already be in a state where there is no need to worry.
Even now, compared with Europe and the United States, both the number of infected people and the number of deaths are far smaller, and compared with them, there has been no explosive outbreak.
There must be something behind the fact that you are deliberately stirring up anxiety.
Even compared with South Korea, which you like, Japan is doing better.
There is no need to imitate the South Korean method.
Japan is doing well.
You are not looking at the data, are you?

To put it simply, as of April 30, the number of infected people per ten thousand population is two in South Korea and one in Japan.
The number of deaths per one million population is five in South Korea and three in Japan.

The whole world.
Population: 7.7 billion.
Infections: 3.25 million.
Deaths: 230,000.
Infection rate: 0.42 percent.
Death rate: 0.03 percent.

South Korea.
Population: 51.85 million.
Infections: 10,774.
Deaths: 247.
Infection rate: 0.021 percent.
Death rate: 0.00048 percent.

Japan.
Population: 126.01 million.
Infections: 14,281.
Deaths: 415.
Infection rate: 0.011 percent.
Death rate: 0.00033 percent.

Each country should respond in a way that fits its national character and legal system.
There is absolutely no need to stir up anxiety.
The Japanese government is carefully and calmly implementing policies in accordance with the knowledge of experts.
Are you not making fools of the Japanese people?
We are the people who have achieved these results merely through requests, without lockdowns like those in Europe and the United States.

Yahoo! News, too, what is the point of taking up remarks from such wide shows?
Yahoo! News seems to have the same sort of sense as opposition parties that take up weekly magazine articles in the Diet.
There must be more important news.
Why is the information being issued by the government not being taken up at all?
It should publish the mechanisms of subsidies and loans for Wuhan virus countermeasures in a way that even elderly people can understand.
The remarks of Yasutoshi Nishimura, Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization, are not appearing at all.
By what criteria is Yahoo! News arranging its lineup?
Almost every day, remarks by Ms. Okada appear.
It seems biased.
It is biased news.
A scolding!

By the way, PayPay is dangerous.
To be continued.