Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan Gets Political

[Mulboyne]

Shoutwire: Reuters Bureau chief, Daniel Sloan Censors Foreign Correspondents

This latest memo from Benjamin Fulford details the efforts by Reuters Bureau chief Daniel Sloan to stop the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan from protesting the increasing restrictions on the press by the current US administration.:

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a problem

The general meeting of the FCCJ (The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan) passed a resolution last week authorizing the freedom of the press committee to protest increasing restrictions on freedom of the press orchestrated by the current U.S. administration. Unfortunately the club president, Daniel Sloan, has seen fit to arbitrarily overrule the vote of the majority of club members. This is an extremely important issue. Never in my dreams would I imagine the day would come when I would regard major U.S. news outlets as having less freedom than their Japanese counterparts. That day has come. American journalists have been and continue to be arrested for refusing to reveal their sources. They are being followed and their houses and computers are being searched. Any government employee who talks to a journalist off the record can now be indicted for leaking state secrets. This means U.S. journalists are in danger of being reduced to government stenographers.

Strong resistance by a united front of Japanese media outlets caused a recent court ruling trying to force the Yomiuri Shinbun Newspaper to reveal an off-the-record source has caused the Japanese government and courts to back-pedal on this issue. The same cannot be said for their American counterparts. Under U.S. pressure repressive laws are being, or have been, passed in countries including the U.K., Australia and Japan. A law now before the Japanese Diet, for example, would allow police to arrest and imprison somebody just for saying something like “I want to get that guy”...more...

[Taro Toporific]

Shoutwire: Reuters Bureau chief, Daniel Sloan Censors Foreign Correspondents

Gee, over on the sleepy Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan website you would never know they are having a bruhaha.]http://www.fccj.or.jp/[/url]