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"People want to read about how to fix broken systems." I hope that's true, but I suspect that people prefer to read about how broken things are, and point fing
by nihonde 10y ago
"People want to read about how to fix broken systems."
I hope that's true, but I suspect that people prefer to read about how broken things are, and point fingers at the perceived culprits. Fixing things leads eventually to "slow news days".
Where I live in Japan, it's not uncommon for the news to spend a bunch of time on a non-fatal car crash, or a string of petty thefts in convenience stores, or a section of train tracks that needed to be fixed in a hurry. Every few weeks, some government official will be disgraced for having a staff member who spent a few dollars worth of public funds on a discretionary lunch or something like that. Occasionally, someone will get murdered (usually small kids, sadly) and that will dominate the news for a day, or a week. Celebrities getting married. And then the horror show of news from other parts of the world.
I'm exaggerating, but not by much. We should all be so lucky to have these slow news days.
- nihonde 10y agoBy the way, I'm aware that Japanese media is tightly coupled to the ruling party. You'll be hard pressed to find anywhere that isn't these days. What I'm trying to get at is the focus on small stuff for lack of awful big stuff that actually gets addressed. Keep in mind, we're talking about a place where a giant wave swept in and killed twenty thousand people and their pets and livestock, etc. in a few minutes, so it's not like it's trouble-free here.