An analysis criticizing television commentators for ignoring the continuing rise of electricity prices in Germany after power market liberalization.

2016-03-22
On last night’s program, not a single commentator mentioned the fact that electricity prices in Germany, which began power liberalization, have continued to rise sharply.
One woman among them had the appearance of someone who likely held the same ideology as Matsui Yayori. Although she spoke in a calm tone, I saw through her nature and judged that her essence was hardly any different from Matsui Yayori’s.
The other men were no different, it would not be an exaggeration to say, from the people with dreadful physiognomies who appeared on TBS’s investigative news programs.
On an energy issue that determines the fate of a nation, these people—who have never passed through the severe test of public elections and are nothing more than NHK employees guaranteed high salaries, status, and secure retirements—failed to do the work journalists must do: shed light on concealed and overlooked facts for viewers.
That such people use the public airwaves to steer the public through superficial moralism is precisely totalitarianism and fascism, and both they and the Japanese people who have trusted them unquestioningly would do well to recognize this.