Legacy media has already fallen hopelessly behind in a world where YouTube delivers unlimited access to truth, knowledge, and the greatest artistic performances in human history. While television continues to recycle shallow talk shows and ideologically distorted commentary, platforms like YouTube present monumental classical performances—such as Michelangeli’s legendary recordings—that expose the overwhelming gap in cultural and intellectual value.
This essay argues that Japan’s mainstream media, trapped in outdated structures and left-wing moral posturing, refuses to acknowledge its own decline. Their manipulated political polls, predictable narratives, and attacks on the internet only highlight how far they have fallen. In contrast, the digital world offers accuracy, diversity, and artistic excellence on a scale traditional media can no longer match. The collapse of legacy media was inevitable—and already decided.

YouTube, with its vast collection of recordings like these, has already left the legacy media lagging behind at an interplanetary distance.
The only program that can barely put up a fight is the early-morning weekday broadcast on NHK BS4K, yet even that is more than a full lap of the Earth behind.
Everything on YouTube is overwhelmingly superior.
The legacy mainstream media are overwhelmingly behind in every respect.
It is not even a contest.
One side offers overwhelming facts and knowledge, endlessly and in parallel.
What the legacy media offer are nothing more than foolish daytime talk shows and endless streams of self-hating, anti-Japanese leftists spouting shallow, mediocre commentary.
Compare, for example, YouTube’s music section with their output—the gap is as large as that between the Earth and the Moon.
It is only natural that the legacy media are collapsing.
While foolish people utter foolish words on television, YouTube overflows with historic performances such as those by Michelangeli—arguably the greatest pianist humanity has ever produced.
Even the best NHK can offer is a biased selection of singers or the year-end Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
The outcome of this contest was decided long ago.
And yet, the left-wing infantilists and pseudo-moralists who make their living in the mass media do not understand even this simple fact; unaware that they have already lost, they now resort to attacking the Internet.
It is beyond absurd.
They do not even realize they are reenacting the ancient proverb, “There is no cure for stupidity,” while calling for Internet regulation—despite holding their smartphones in their hands every waking moment.
In the “Otoko wa Tsurai yo” film where Michiyo Aratama appears as the heroine, I have always loved the line spoken by Tatekawa Danshi:
“You’re the fool.”
People in the legacy media should listen to classical music on YouTube.
They would immediately understand that they are complete dropouts.
They would never again dare to utter the foolish claim that online information is unreliable.
Because it is an undeniable fact that your so-called opinion polls—“Who should be the next Prime Minister?”—were nothing but outrageous fabrications, concocted by left-wing infantilists who were, for some reason, rabidly anti-Abe.
Who else but you kept reporting rankings like:
1st Ishiba, 2nd Koizumi, 3rd Kono?
And even now, you show not the slightest hint of remorse.
To borrow a famous line from a manga: “You are already dead.”
That is the current state of the mass media, though they remain oblivious to it.
(To be continued.)