ujiin

soundingboard【2】

（引用続き）“Some Japanese people, bombarded with media focus on the administration's weak points, might be forgiven for getting the impression that the government is not in the business of developing sound policy or governance.／For their part, many ordinary citizens are largely narrow-minded and shortsighted ― happy enough just to feast on the rubbish furnished by unimaginative hacks often found nestling in this country's cliquish press club system.／There you have it: a frenzy of misleading media and misguided people! When people's attitudes toward the government can fluctuate from peak to trough in such short cycles, a stable foundation for the future will never be built in this country.／SHIGERU YAMADA／Sendai, Miyagi”
（2010年11月14日付『THE JAPAN TIMES』p.16、“opinion／READERS IN COUNCIL”）

URL:
search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20101114a6.html


　こういうのが……日本語新聞の投書欄で普通に読める日が、早く来て欲しいです（ΤωΤ；

soundingboard【1】

“People feast on media rubbish／The approval ratings of the Kan administration have plummeted some 15 points to a make-or-break 35 percent. This underscores how easily people in this country are swayed by the media and their chattering classes.／When the Hatoyama administration went under, it was the huge media hullabaloo over a small U.S. air base in Okinawa that turned out to be the final nail in the Cabinet's coffin.／After Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa stepped down from the party presidency, there was similar, overblown coverage about an allegedly shady ― but minuscule ― land deal. Prosecutors initially failed to make the accusations against Ozawa stick, but the case has risen like a zombie and is due to be heard in court soon thanks to a quirk in the nation's judicial system.／More recently, overenthusiastic coverage of territorial spats with China and Russia looks set to contribute to Prime Minister Naoto Kan's downfall.”（引用続く）
［【2】へ続く］