{"id":7098,"date":"2011-03-16T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2011-03-17T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:56:46","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/","title":{"rendered":"And now for something completely different…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Time to turn off CNN or whatever news show you’ve been watching for the past five or six days. Time to realize that the news is performed by actors looking for ratings, not reporters looking to give you a true picture of reality. Sure there was a massive quake and tsunami. There is lots of damage, death, and destruction along the coast near Sendai and in Fukushima. Japan will recover, rebuild, and be better than before.<\/p>\n

The news media are not presenting things accurately. I cringe at nearly everything they say. The western news media in particular seem to be totally clueless. They sometimes don’t know where they are (naming places that certainly aren’t currently located at as their current location), can’t even pronounce Tokyo (it isn’t To-ki-o), and sensationalize the facts. It’s almost as if they want things to be worse. I watched one news guy call the area hit by the tsunami a “retirement community” since there are so many old people. Rural Japan is loaded with old people. That’s Japan! Elderly people didn’t move there in retirement (which is what an American might think).<\/p>\n

We have friends and family who have been watching the news calling and emailing us saying how fortunate we are to be back in the USA and not in Tokyo where we wouldn’t be able to find food to eat, water to drink, and where we’d be dying of exposure to radiation. Ha! I’d take the food selection in Tokyo, post-earthquake, any day<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Here are a couple more links to show how things really are in Tokyo:
\nFood crisis in Tokyo!!!<\/a> (not)
\nPost Earthquake Tokyo<\/a> <\/p>\n

BTW, today’s photo is from Tokeiji<\/a> in Kamakura. It represents a call for more calmness and less panic-spreading nonsense from CNN and the other news outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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