This essay questions the abnormality of a nation where television news never encourages its own leaders, focusing on the alignment of public broadcasting with partisan criticism.

A nation without television news that ever supports its own government is not normal—it is profoundly distorted.

2017-07-09

A country that has no television news program which sends encouragement to its own leaders and its own government.
What other nation in the world could possibly be so abnormal.

As already noted, TV Asahi and TBS repeatedly launch malicious attacks on the government, almost as if they have lost their sanity.
Eventually, I stopped watching the news programs of these two networks altogether.

What is utterly unacceptable, however, is that NHK’s Watch 9 is clearly aligning itself with, or imitating, the behavior of these commercial broadcasters.

Was not the president of NHK someone who worked as a trading company executive and contributed to Japan.
Even if he is nothing more than a figurehead with no real authority, he should at least possess enough judgment to understand that NHK’s news programs must not be turned into platforms for ideological propaganda by groups such as Chongryon or figures like Erika Ikeda and Akira Nagai.

If he has even a fragment of ordinary patriotism, he must immediately stop allowing anchors such as Kuwako and Arima to comment on politics and diplomacy on Watch 9.
The reason should be obvious.
They should be made to do nothing more than read out the facts.

Allowing the national broadcaster to align itself with the Asahi Shimbun is tantamount to declaring that one possesses the judgment of a kindergartener at best,
or that one is a traitor to the nation, currying favor with countries such as China and South Korea, whose anti-Japanese education amounts to a form of Nazism.