Those Who Have Taken Jobs in the Media Are Truly, with Very Few Exceptions, Second- or Third-Rate People, to Put It Harshly. In Other Words, They Are Incompetent and Unintelligent.

May 10, 2020
It goes without saying that the article prominently featured in today’s Sankei Shimbun under the headline “China Lures Countries with Aid to Gain Control of the WHO” is genuine journalism.
I have just one request for these journalists, whose work is truly useful to Japan and the world.
Unless space restrictions prevent it, please write out dates without omitting the month or the year.
In other words, please always write with the awareness that your articles may be translated into English and read by people around the world.
I suspect the practice stems from writing years in the Heisei era, but, for example, I would like you to write 2017 rather than ’17.
Even in the article mentioned above, the sentence “At its emergency committee meeting on the 23rd, the WHO declined to declare an emergency, calling it ‘premature’” presumably refers to January, but that requires verification.
This time, however, it proved a blessing in disguise, as I was able to discover the Health Ministry’s ministerial ordinance of January 23.
As readers know, I was the first to inform Japan and the world that those who make their living at the Asahi Shimbun and similar organizations are not Japan’s finest talents.
Japan’s brightest minds pursue three paths.

1. They take jobs in Kasumigaseki and assume responsibility for running Japan.
2. They join the major corporations of which Japan is proud and become senior executives.
3. They become doctors and save the lives of complete strangers.
   I must, however, add a fourth category: becoming genuine scholars and winning Nobel Prizes.
   Outstanding minds, or geniuses, exist in every field.
   For example, in sports, surely no one would object to naming Ichiro as one representative among many.
   Now, to the main subject.
   One look at the Health Ministry’s ministerial ordinance of January 23 makes it abundantly clear.
   These people are among Japan’s finest talents.
   Not a single person making a living at the Asahi Shimbun or similar newspapers, or in television media such as NHK, could have devised measures on January 23 that comprehensively covered every relevant aspect of the situation in Japan and the world at that point.
   Yet the television media, in particular, continue to portray this ministry as though it were a collection of incompetent people, both in their news programs and in their utterly foolish daytime talk shows.
   Nothing could be more absurd.
   Those who have taken jobs in the media are truly, with very few exceptions, second- or third-rate people, to put it harshly.
   In other words, they are incompetent and unintelligent.
   Getting them to recognize the enormous difference between themselves and the truly first-rate is an urgent task for Japan today.
   The truly first-rate are made of selflessness and a spirit of service to their country, to truth, and to others,
   whereas these people live entirely by self-interest, selfishness, and distorted ideology.
   The difference is as great as that between heaven and earth.
   The Health Ministry’s ministerial ordinance of January 23 demonstrated this vividly.
   By contrast, what the television media do is
   assemble thoroughly second- and third-rate entertainers and assorted others for utterly foolish programs known as daytime talk shows…
   At their root lies a base mentality: wanting higher ratings, wanting to keep production costs down, and so on,
   and earning a living for their foolish selves is all that matters to them,
   whereas others comprehensively undertake every examination and countermeasure required for the country’s sake and, to that end, do not shrink from working past midnight.
   Their attitude is the exact opposite of that.
   They are handed the Asahi Shimbun in the greenroom and, being second- or third-rate, say precisely what the program producers—entrenched in a self-denigrating view of history and anti-Japanese ideology—want them to say.
   It goes without saying that this leads to national ruin.
   Fully understanding the influence that this television has on Japanese households,
   China and South Korea—totalitarian states that make anti-Japanese propaganda a national policy and persist in anti-Japanese education—
   could hardly fail to conduct influence operations targeting these people.
   Forces from the Korean Peninsula took advantage of GHQ’s policy of permanently weakening Japan immediately after the war and infiltrated Japanese news organizations, including NHK, in large numbers.
   They and their descendants ignored other departments and occupied key positions in news departments, particularly in news editing.
   That is why Japan’s television stations today are so astonishingly closely connected with South Korea.
   China thoroughly exploited the Asahi Shimbun, which had dominated the media until August six years ago.
   The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others have had even their souls drained by the so-called Japan–China Press Agreement, a mere private agreement drawn up during a period of ostensible friendship between Japan and China and biased entirely toward China’s wishes.
   China exploits this situation—the complete psychological subservience of the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and other television media to China—to continually convey its wishes from the Chinese Embassy in Moto-Azabu to the media, excluding the Sankei Shimbun, because the Sankei alone refuses to submit to China.
   Since NHK accommodates CCTV’s Japan branch within its headquarters in Shibuya, no time or effort is required.
   To be continued.