When you move to the private TV channels, they talk about it. The daily sports newspapers like Fuji, or Nikkan Gendai, which you can buy just before getting on the subway, at kiosks (rather lurid, throw away tabloids) are full of comments about how they have been brainwashed. These tend to be the most frank in Japan; even though they are low class, people turn to them for the most news with the limited amount of filter and bullshit. In this case, I tend to believe the tabloids in Japan and my own eyes when I see such horrid, amazing press conferences.