Japan's Takenaka Mulls Official Protest Of NY Times-Kyodo

Dow Jones Newswires | May 29, 2003

[Timesink]

Japan's Takenaka Mulls Official Protest Of NY Times-Kyodo

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

NEW YORK -- Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka said Thursday he is considering lodging an official protest against the New York Times Co. (NYT) over a report that he plans to leave government service as early as September to return to the world of academia, the Kyodo news agency reported.

The report is "totally nonsense," Takenaka told the House of Councillors' Financial Affairs Committee. "I'm considering lodging an official protest (with the paper) through a lawyer," Kyodo reported.

He said the report could undermine confidence in a key government policy that is enabling the state to inject taxpayers' money into Resona Bank (J.RSN), a major commercial bank, to shore up its weak capital base.

According to the report, Takenaka, who doubles as state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, is making preparations to return to academia "in the expectation that he may be forced out of the government," according to Kyodo.

The same report was also printed in Thursday's issue of the International Herald Tribune.

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Dow Jones Newswires declines to note that the International Herald Tribune is 100% owned by The New York Times.

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Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[jocon307]

If I am not very much mistaken, this report also was in the New York Times, on the front page of the business section. I was glancing through someone's copy at work and I noticed the headline. Big piece,with a big picture of the subject. I wouldn't have seen it if it wasn't on the front page of the section.

[Miss Marple]

Interesting that they don't mention that point about the International Herald Tribune.

Either they don't know (incompetent) or they are hiding that fact to give the Times story a bit of credibility.

I vote for the latter, myself.

Meanwhile, it is nice to see the Times reporting scandal has gone internationanl.

[mware]

LOL, the NYT is in going into total meltdown.

[xJones]

You have to hand it to the NYT and it's affiliate. When they start shooting themselves in both feet they continue on for the knees.

[Grampa Dave]

The Slimes and its various farm club teams of liars like the Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune are incapable of telling the truth.

It is time to go back to an old tag line. "Can anyone ever remember the NY Slimes printing a truthful story? I can't!"

[razorback-bert]

"Can anyone ever remember the NY Slimes printing a truthful story?

Pearl Harbor Attacked?

[Grampa Dave]

I was three and not able to read anything at that time.

[Tamzee]

Dow Jones Newswires declines to note that the International Herald Tribune is 100% owned by The New York Times.

Yep, very slick and sneaky move. This way it looks like "Oops! NYT made a mistake but so did another huge and reputable paper..." It mitigates the accountability somewhat instead of showing how obscene this mistake was, that the NYT owns that other huge paper and so the mistake was compounded so greatly.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping...