I’ll tell you something about Japan:
There’s something called “kisshya kai” —press pool. Groups in Japan are orderly, and they function like cartels —they keep things orderly and force markets to work in times of unusual stress, whereas a pure market might fail, in some sense.
But even if this is good for some markets, in others it’s bad. Like in the market for news —should groups of reporters regularly get together and decide in private what elements of breaking stories come out to the public...?
Because that is what they do with the MSM in Japan:
Groups of the really “pro” reporters in Japan feel so beholden to their government sources and to their journalistic group that they VERY rarely actually break stories. And so there is a quirk to Japanese political news —only the really “scummy” weekly rags (sorta like the Enquirer, but perhaps more like the Newspaper rages that would scream about Alien Space Babies found in watermelons) actually break major scandals.
And I see that same cartelized pattern at work in the USA, for at least 10 years now.
Do you see the symbolism at work here? The off the record meeting is FLATTERING to MSM biggies because it’s a tacit admission that The Fifth Estate is a de-facto extension of The Establishment.
WHAT IF NIXON HAD OFFERED TO “CLEAR THINGS UP ABOUT THAT WATERGATE THING” WITH WOODWARD...?
Why do Age of Aquarius hippies now roust people from their Boston homes, frisk them, and throw them down the street?
—> Because we have come full circle <—
And the times are a’changin’. BACK.