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- From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
- Subject: Re: brainwashed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.225306.26842@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 22:53:06 GMT
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- In article <1hls6vINNmlj@agate.berkeley.edu> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu
- (Henry Robertson) writes:
- >Dwight Joe says
- >>What these events will do is to expose Japanese society, at large, to
- >>a view of the Western mind and society that most Japanese people have
- >>never known. Before these magazines, the only printed source of information
- >>about the West seems to have come from Japanese newspapers and magazines
- >>that warp the image of the West (mainly the USA) into a society of
- >>druggies, rapists, racists, and other unsavory characters. The USA is
- >>painted as a dangerous unhappy place created by the unleashing of
- >>"subsersive" social forces like "the women's movement", "the civil rights
- >>movement", blah blah.
- >>Maybe, now, the Japanese will get a better balanced picture of America.
- >>Of course, most Japanese who've actually lived in the USA for an extended
- >>period know that the info from Japanese newspapers (in the previous
- >>paragraph) is just crock.
- >>about the Japanese edition of Newsweek.
- >Wrong. The Japanese edition is run by an independent staff, using cuts &
- >pastes as suits their tastes from the English version. Remember, Newsweek
- >is a business, not a scholarly journal embracing progressive values. They
-
- Virtually all publications are a business. So what? CNN is a business
- too. So what?
-
- Eijanaika.
-
- >publish what their audiences want to hear, the perspective they want to see.
-
- I disagree with this. I consider Newsweek and Time to be fairly balanced
- in their reporting _and_ their editorials. George Will, a conservative
- columnist, shares print-space with another liberal columnist in Newsweek.
- The principal difference between Newsweek and a more scholarly publication
- like the Atlantic Monthly is that Newsweek is directed at the average
- American whereas the Atlantic Monthly is targetted at an audience
- with a college education or comparable intellect.
-
- >I have seen the English & Japanese version of Newsweek side-by-side
- >before. Often, their cover stories are entirely different.
-
- I didn't mean to say that the Japanese-edition (JE) of Newsweek is a
- translation of the American-edition (AE) of Newsweek. I agree that there
- is some deviation in the content.
-
- Well, I too have seen both magazines side by side. I would say that the
- match is better than 50% and that the cover stories are the same in more than
- 50% of the cases.
-
- By the way, I've noticed that many Japanese people have little knowledge
- or interest in Korea. However, in one issue of Newsweek in 1991, the cover
- story of both the JE and the AE of Newsweek dealt with N. Korea (its
- push to build an atomic bomb, its kidnapping of a Japanese girl from
- a cabaret in Japan, etc.)
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