Comments on: How internet anger brought Mainichi to its knees

By: Japan Times places Tokyo Confidential column under “Editorial review” | Japan Probe

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:26:46 +0000

[...] that the higher-ups at the Japan Times pulled all the articles from the site after hearing about Mainichi losing many of its advertisers over the WaiWai [...]

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By: vincent

vincent — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:02:48 +0000

i miss WaiWai…is there any alternatives?

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By: ponta

ponta — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:46:04 +0000

It may be poor “news” but I wouldn’t say that it is the same kind as WaiWai.

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:19:17 +0000

Nor more Waiwai in english, but the same kind of poor “news”, in JAPANESE on japanese mass media website:
渋谷で調査！女子高生の「スカートが長くなった」はホント？
http://trendy.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/column/20081028/1020443/?flash

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By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:19:45 +0000

There is something to be feared – 2chan at the helm steering the Japanese media. How is the world supposed to take Japanese news seriously now?!

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By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:02:52 +0000

Beware the destructive power of bored, angry nerds against spineless Japanese companies!

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By: BS

BS — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:54:53 +0000

Fear the Internet. It will take your children next.

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By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:29:10 +0000

There were a whole bunch of words with very little information.

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By: Jack Elliot

Jack Elliot — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:09:01 +0000

Fuck that. “Amazingly destructive power?” People are communicating faster and more efficiently than ever before and the best phrase he could think of was “amazingly destructive power?” Whattajerk.

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By: Boby

Boby — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:47:42 +0000

Frankly, this is a ridiculous article, which made me cough up some of my miso soup.

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