Today's Sankei Shimbun had many articles to read.
Have knowledge and competence appropriate for juniors of Takayama Masayuki, it is from the series column of Abiru Rui which is one of the best reporters in Japan now.
His ancestors are the family who commanded soldiers garrisoned at strategic posts in Kyushu in ancient times.
Media is always double standard
Interview article by Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, published in the morning edition of this issue 4, conveyed Mr. Fukuda's vision of history and diplomacy of Mr. Fukuda who visited China's Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders last month.
Mr. Fukuda says.
"If there are 300,000 victims over there (China), we are accepting that ..."
If Korea and North Korea say that 200,000 women from the Korean Peninsula were forcibly taken to the Japanese army and police and made it a comfort woman, they accepted it as facts Japanese government and leftist media It is exactly like that.
Why should we accept impossible pseudologia and extreme exaggeration as it is?
Although it suffers from understanding, because it is Mr. Fukuda that is such a thought, it seems that the affinity with the media was high and it was protected.
While thinking about such things ... I wanted to introduce the inexplicable feel that I felt when reading the polls of the Asahi Shimbun at the time of the Fukuda administration in 2008, 10 years ago, after a long time.
The Asahi Shimbun posted an article titled ‘Cabinet support 19%’ in the two-step headline to the bottom of the morning edition front page on May 20th this year.
The handling was small, almost an article that seemed to miss.
The support rate of this 19% (disapproval rate is 65%) was lower than 20% of the previous April survey that recorded the lowest record in the company survey, and it updated the lowest record.
However, instead of directly writing that the article was the lowest ever, he had an ambiguous way of saying ‘It was a low level following the previous survey.’
There was no mention of falling to the 10% level for the first time.
We did not find related articles including explanations.
Around this time, the Fukuda Cabinet's approval rating by the company's survey was 31% ↓ 25% ↓ 20% ↓ 19% in about two months, despite the fact that the article was stagnating, the article was indifferent to the last.
It's as simple as saying that it is not a big problem.
Meanwhile, how was it when the support rate of the Shinzo Abe cabinet reached 31% in the company survey this March?
In the top page on the front page top four headings, ‘Abe cabinet minimum support 31%’, ‘48% unsupported since the second administration’, the third row headline ‘Tampering’ responsible to the prime minister 82%’ was reported extensively.
The Abe administration suffers from a breath and seems to be exhausted all the time, but it is unlikely to be uncomfortable when compared with the way of reporting at the Fukuda administration.
It is of course free to pick up the opinion poll results, but the attitude of the media changes so much depending on who the prime minister is.
The double standard is the usual accompaniment to something.
Not just handling articles.
The survey results themselves will fluctuate without the preamble of the question and how to ask questions during the survey, ‘The government that is pursued pursuant to the MoriKake problem’ and the like.
The media including this paper is now suspected of using arbitrary opinion polls and trying to induce public opinion.
In media illegal golden parachuting mediation problem in MEXT, it hit the vice-minister Maekawa Kihei of MEXT who served as 'controller', but as Mr. Maekawa started criticizing the Abe administration, it turned around as Mr. Maekawa to be a hero of justice it was.
Currently, the problem of Mr. Sano, who was MEXT Science Technology · Academic Policy Director-General who got his son passed in return for convenience to the university is being troubled.
The opposition party and the media are surprised that the problem is serious, but there is one thing that can be clearly predicted.
If Sano defendant said, ‘Administrative distortion was distorted by the Abe administration,’ the opposition party and the media will become sympathetic to Sano suspect immediately and begin to defend.
(Editorial Board Member and Editorial Board of the Political Division)
