Talk:Yomiuri Shimbun
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[edit] Literal meaning
Can someone add the literal meaning of the title of this publication? Badagnani 23:35, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] format
Which format does the print edition use? Tabloid, broadsheet, or something else? —Charles P._(Mirv) 01:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fox News comparison wrong
This article says "Yomiuri Shimbun resembles the Japanese version of the Fox News in the US for journalism." This is not true. I am fluent in Japanese and I've read the "Yomiuri Shimbun" for years. It is nothing like Fox News. Fox News is a bizarre freak show that peddles White House government propaganda, as well as falsehoods, distortions, misinformation, and GOP talking points, to a cult-like audience. By contrast, Yomiuri Shimbun is a conservative newspaper more along the lines of Britain's "Financial Times." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.169.97.206 (talk) 15:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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- Yomiuri Shimbun loves to create "doubt" in issues over comfort women http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/20071215TDY04305.htm and Japanese military's Nanking massacre. Shimbun wrote a 7-part series on an inevtiable war with North Korea. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071118TDY01302.htm
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- "I am fluent in Japanese and I've read the "Yomiuri Shimbun" for years"
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- I guess the translators are doing a lousy job. Read the English Yomiuri Shimbun. You either speak poor Japanese or rudimentary English. Face it. Shimbun applauds revisionism.
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- "Fox News is a bizarre freak show that peddles White House government propaganda, as well as falsehoods, distortions, misinformation, and GOP talking points, to a cult-like audience"
- The Yomiuri Shimbun peddles a relatively nice mix of "falsehoods, distortions, misinformation," and Japanese neocon propaganda. The Yomiuri Shimbun caters to right-wing revisionist neocon readers. You cannot use any logical argument against these types of people. These neo-cons' arguments stems from religion, rather than scientific and empirical reasoning.Fukuoda (talk) 22:24, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
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- The Yomiuri Shimbun does indeed applaud revisionism on the war crimes compensation issue (but so does the entire Japanese mainstream media). However, it does not necessarily follow that this therefore makes the Yomiuri Shimbun somehow Japan's version of "Fox News." After all, the Yomiuri Shimbun does include SOME serious, accurate reporting on topics from national and world news, culture, economy, etc. I've found a lot of its world news coverage is better and more thorough than anything I've seen in the U.S. mainstream media. By contrast, Fox News is more like a broadcast version of "The National Enquirer" tabloid, peddling sleaze, sex, sensationalism, as well as right-wing propaganda on ALL of its content. I maintain that the Yomiuri Shimbun/Fox News comparison is not valid. I also maintain that a Japanese version of Fox News would be laughed at and not taken seriously by the vast majority of the Japanese people. I suspect even the far-right in Japan would giggle at Fox News' juvenile, simplistic, dumbed-down approach to "news." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.91.112.76 (talk) 04:13, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
- BTW, Fukuoda: the links you gave for the "comfort women" and "Korean war" stories are not valid links. There is no such story at either URL. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.91.112.76 (talk) 04:24, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
- The Yomiuri Shimbun does indeed applaud revisionism on the war crimes compensation issue (but so does the entire Japanese mainstream media). However, it does not necessarily follow that this therefore makes the Yomiuri Shimbun somehow Japan's version of "Fox News." After all, the Yomiuri Shimbun does include SOME serious, accurate reporting on topics from national and world news, culture, economy, etc. I've found a lot of its world news coverage is better and more thorough than anything I've seen in the U.S. mainstream media. By contrast, Fox News is more like a broadcast version of "The National Enquirer" tabloid, peddling sleaze, sex, sensationalism, as well as right-wing propaganda on ALL of its content. I maintain that the Yomiuri Shimbun/Fox News comparison is not valid. I also maintain that a Japanese version of Fox News would be laughed at and not taken seriously by the vast majority of the Japanese people. I suspect even the far-right in Japan would giggle at Fox News' juvenile, simplistic, dumbed-down approach to "news." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.91.112.76 (talk) 04:13, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
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