Journalism Hokai (Gentosha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] Japanese newspaper and TV journalists are laughed at around the world. Symbolic of this is the "press club" system unique to Japan. The "memo matching" system, in which reporters show their memos to each other and write the same cheat sheet, the distorted structure that allows them to get ahead if the politician in charge gets ahead, and the system that prevents them from reporting the facts they find in favor of the powers that be. Newspapers and TV stations have abandoned their position as checks on power and their duty to inform the public. In this book, a fearless journalist reveals the truth about the media, which has become entrenched in an elitist consciousness.

日本の新聞・テレビ記者たちが世界中で笑われている。その象徴が日本にしかない「記者クラブ」制度だ。メモを互いに見せ合い同じカンニング記事を書く「メモ合わせ」、担当政治家が出世すれば自分も出世する歪んだ構造、権力におもねり掴んだ事実を報道しない体質。もはや新聞・テレビは権力をチェックする立場と国民に知らせる義務を放棄したも同然である。恐いもの知らずのジャーナリストがエリート意識にこりかたまった大マスコミの真実を明かす、亡国のメディア論。