Despite polls showing over 72% American support for the State of the Union address, television coverage emphasized opposition.
Are media outlets reporting public opinion accurately, or filtering it through ideology.
A reflection on public broadcasting responsibility and the neutrality of news coverage.

Astonishingly, in complete contrast to Watch9’s reporting, more than 72% of Americans supported it in every category.
2018-01-31.
However, the biased reporting of NHK’s Watch9 has reached a level that can no longer be dismissed as ordinary.
I was watching Watch9 while observing the total lunar eclipse.
After it ended, I switched to BS1’s international news, which happened to be reporting on President Trump’s State of the Union address.
As those who watched Watch9 know, the program reported that Democrats and voters opposed President Trump’s speech, presenting the comments of a man in his thirties, who appeared to be a Democratic supporter, speaking mockingly of the president in what looked like a sports bar, openly ridiculing him.
Anyone watching Watch9 would have thought that opposition to President Trump was considerable, that he was rejected by many Americans.
However.
The international news program properly reported American public opinion poll results regarding the State of the Union address.
Astonishingly, in complete contrast to Watch9’s report, more than 72% of Americans supported it across all categories.
Those who control Watch9 want to broadcast their own opinions, but when something does not align with their views or ideology—which in truth is nothing more than distorted thinking—they openly wield what can only be called the “freedom not to report.”
Though it is in effect a state broadcaster sustained by the taxes of the Japanese people, they never call themselves that, instead using the ambiguous label of “public broadcasting.”
Such people are, for Japan and its citizens, the most dangerous parasites within the lion.
Today I came to a decisive conclusion.
Arima, if as an NHK employee you receive one of the highest salaries in Japan from what is essentially the tax money of the Japanese people, and if you wish to rebel so strongly against Japan and against the prime minister and president of its most important ally,
then you should immediately resign from NHK and become a politician.