

TV news programs in Japan pixelate a variety of things, mostly to protect the accused, the innocent, or those too young to be held responsible. Depending on the station you may see the figure of an arrested suspect mosaic'd out....
...Chickens, though, are a first for me. A first for the animal kingdom, in fact. There's a bird flu outbreak in Yamaguchi that has killed 2,399 chickens so far; to accompany this bit of news this afternoon we were treated to a shot of chickens inside a chicken-house somewhere, their figures carefully digitally degraded.... more...