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Jul 22 2008

A Word on the Mainichi Daily Scandal

Published by toddwins at 11:52 pm under Newspapers, Useful Stuff Edit This

What do these bullet points have in common? They’re headlines from the infamous WaiWai column of Japan’s Mainichi Daily News. Essentially what this column did was extract articles from Japanese tabloids and porn magazines and present them as coming from reputable sources. They only did this for the English version of the column, and they were able to get away with it due to the relative obscurity of the source material. I mean, a Japanese person won’t really know the difference between The National Enquirer and The New Republic.

So all that has been going on for the past 8 years and it has just recently stopped. The Mainichi Daily has been cleansing its corruption and is scheduling for a fresh start in September. Read about it here .

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One Response to “A Word on the Mainichi Daily Scandal”

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