Undemocratic Media Overseas

Undemocratic Media Overseas

By Rory O'Connor, AlterNet
Posted on March 21, 2005, Printed on March 23, 2005
http://www.alternet.org/story/21553/

NEW YORK, March 21, 2005 – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Tokyo this weekend, bluntly if diplomatically suggesting democracy – or at least "some form of open, genuinely representative government" eventually be embraced by China.

Rice made no mention, however, of the need for democratic reform in another one-party state that has instead hugged capitalism, while divorcing itself from certain democratic principles such as freedom of the press.

That country, of course, is the one Secretary Rice was speaking from – Japan – where Big Media and Big Government have been in cahoots since before World War II, as detailed in a new book by Adam Gamble & Takesato Watanabe, A Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West.