An insider’s account from a former TBS employee reveals a broader pathology shared by TV Asahi and NHK.
This essay exposes how ideological bias, national security blindness, and pseudo-moralism have hollowed out Japan’s major media institutions from within.

May 10, 2016

The other day, I introduced an article posted online titled “A Former TBS Employee’s Soliloquy.”
Naturally, anyone with a sound mind must have thought that the same situation applies to TV Asahi or NHK as well.
After becoming aware of the sheer bias, childishness, and therefore persistent viciousness of Hōdō Station, I have hardly watched the program anymore.
This turned out to be a blessing, because it allowed me to watch NHK’s The Professionals during that time slot.
The other day, after NHK’s Watch 9 ended, I switched the channel to Hōdō Station, which was covering the North Korean Party Congress.
Surely many viewers must have sensed something strange about the commentator.
Soon after, a TV Asahi correspondent appeared from Pyongyang.
Amazingly, the reporter had a Korean name.
As I have already written, when Furuta was hosting the program, he once proudly called in a desk editor from the international news division who also had a Korean name—an incident that left me utterly stunned.
It became obvious without further explanation that TV Asahi’s news division is in a state similar to, or worse than, TBS.
Employing resident Koreans and entrusting them with desk positions in the news division are fundamentally different matters—yet Asahi Shimbun and TV Asahi fail to understand even this distinction.
South Korea and China are countries that have adopted anti-Japan propaganda as national policy.
They have the CIA and the FBI equivalents of their own.
To assume that such countries would not attempt to approach individuals working at TBS, Asahi, or NHK is either the thinking of someone with less knowledge of national security than a kindergarten child, or the philosophy of someone who simply wishes to oppress Japan, belittle it, prevent it from growing strong, and keep it branded as a perpetual villain.
If they wish to employ resident Koreans, they may do so freely.
There is nothing inherently wrong with that.
They probably believe this demonstrates their own moral superiority.
But consider this carefully: do South Korea or China do the same?
The answer is none whatsoever.
If one is to go to the United Nations to accuse others of lacking freedom of speech or practicing racial discrimination, then it is self-evident that these countries themselves should first be condemned.
To be continued.