CNN/Time Warner obsessed with minor trends in Japanese adult film industry

This is nothing new. It isn’t that the foreign correspondents posted to Tokyo are obsessed with 爺さん porn; rather it’s a combination of two factors: 1) laziness and a willingness to ripoff the work of their fellow journos, and 2) the fact that extremely few foreign correspondents based in Tokyo can read or speak Japanese so they have trouble coming up with good feature stories on their own.

I remember a few years ago the BBC did a story on an ear-cleaning clinic in Shinjuku where they used an endoscope so customers could see the insides of their ears as they were being cleaned. A few weeks later the same story showed up in Reuters and then in the IHT. Basically, the guys working for Reuters and the IHT saw the BBC story and thought “oooh, that looks like a good story, I’ll do that too.”

When I was in Russia in the mid-1990s it was even more apparent that lazy reporters who couldn’t speak Russian and who couldn’t dig up stories on their own would blatantly steal story ideas from the published work of their colleagues. Of course, nobody saw it as stealing. If you wrote for a Moscow bureau other reporters for other papers weren’t your enemies, they were your friends. If you worked for Reuters every time the London Independent did a feature story somewhere, well, there was a feature story you could do, too – even with the same interview subjects. And once you did your story, the guy down the hall from Newsweek could do the same story…at which point it could be handed off to the guy from the FT, and so on and so on with everybody involved doing the absolute bare minimum of actual work.

I’m sure that’s what’s happening here too.

Go to “Tube8.com” or “YouPorn.com” and you will easily find the American porn videos starring the elderly.
Why the leading U.S. media are obsessed with the Japanese porn?

Ponta, you’re forgetting the part about how she was publicly fired from KNBC in Chicago for “gross misconduct” after getting caught having an affair with a married field producer while she was also married. She’s divorced now.

She probably realizes that its attention-getting “wai wai” features pieces that will get her airtime. Remember Atika Shubert? Kyung Lah has already got more stories to air in 6 months than she did in 3 years.

Wacky stories are popular around the globe and sure fire sellers. I imagine this is why she covers them – not any great conspiracy but market demands.

One of the free commuter tabloids in Sydney has pages devoted to them. The breakdown of the wacky stories by country of origin roughly have the US as the number one source by a large margin, then the UK, then Europe as a whole, China, Japan and other assorted countries. It’s mainly by ease of finding the stories in english rather then anything else.

What is interesting is the idea that someone’s origin means they must have a personal agenda for their work and all the research done by ponta to prove this – which says more about them then Kyung Lar. The only personal agenda I’m seeing here belongs to ponta.