2024-02-29
Le Monde Is Famous Only for Its Name, but It Is a Small Newspaper with a Circulation of Less Than 300,000
October 4, 2019
The true identity of Philippe Mesmer, Le Monde’s French correspondent….
The French newspaper Le Monde published a lengthy article during Japan’s general election that vilified Prime Minister Abe as a “historical revisionist,” among other things.
The following is an article I have just found on the Internet.
Reading this article makes it clear that media organizations such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, when confronted with genuine journalism on the Internet, are nothing more than organizations dominated not by journalists but by people afflicted with left-wing infantilism.
The time has come to define them clearly as organizations that serve as propaganda organs for the anti-Japanese nations of China and the Korean Peninsula, that participate every day in dividing Japan, that mislead Japan, weaken its national power, and devote themselves to destroying its international standing and credibility.
The following….
The time has come to expose the fact that those who control the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, despite being nothing more than ordinary people, are agents of China and the Korean Peninsula, and to deport every one of them.
October 31, 2017
The True Identity of Philippe Mesmer, Le Monde’s French Correspondent
The French newspaper Le Monde published a lengthy article during Japan’s general election that vilified Prime Minister Abe as a “historical revisionist,” among other things.
Because its content was extremely harsh, Japan’s anti-Abe leftists were overjoyed.
The fake-news website Litera published a carelessly translated article and went so far as to sensationalize such claims as “The essence of Prime Minister Abe’s constitutional amendment is the revival of the Japanese Empire” and “The Emperor resists Abe’s historical revisionism” in gold-colored type.
There was nothing new in its content, because it merely followed the kind of nonsensical articles written by left-wing journalists infesting the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.
However, I would like to use this opportunity to expose the true identity of the reporters and shatter the illusion of the Japanese left’s “faith in overseas coverage,” which causes them to rejoice merely because something appears in a French newspaper.
The article was jointly written by reporters Philippe Pons and Philippe Mesmer.
Pons is already 79 years old.
He is an old-timer who has lived in Japan for several decades and has consistently written articles with a left-wing bias.
Mesmer, meanwhile, works energetically, writing articles that attack Aso in the same stroke with which he criticizes Abe, and deliberately reporting on Shiori Ito’s press conference even when other major foreign media outlets do not cover it.
Mesmer is a useful presence for Japan’s left-wing media, opposing the conspiracy law, criticizing the government in Weekly Playboy, and appearing on Hodo Station.
However, when one examines his background, it appears questionable, and it is difficult to describe him as a proper correspondent.
First of all, compared with Japan, the custom of home newspaper delivery has hardly taken root in France.
Even newspapers described as national publications have extremely small circulations.
Le Monde is famous only for its name, but it is a small newspaper with a circulation of less than 300,000.
A newspaper company with such a weak managerial foundation cannot afford to dispatch its own reporters to Japan, and its self-styled correspondent is a locally hired French national.
According to an interview with Mesmer published in NUMBER 1 SHIMBUN, the bulletin of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, he initially joined the navy.
Afterward, he studied to become a journalist, worked in France for a while, and then suddenly came to Japan.
Explaining his reason, he said, “A woman was partly involved.”
He probably came in pursuit of a Japanese girlfriend or because his work in France had reached an impasse.
He has also said that he began practicing kendo at his wife’s recommendation, so it appears that he obtained permanent residency in Japan through an international marriage.
In addition to working as a Le Monde reporter, he also works as a narrator, French-language instructor, interpreter, and actor, placing him far from being a genuine full-time correspondent.
To begin with, rather than conducting his own reporting, he merely takes the fake news written by The Japan Times, the English-language edition of the Asahi Shimbun, and other foreign reporters, and reshapes it into French-language articles.