Japan\Foreign Media Information Gap

[Ganma]

[wuchan]

I don't think the foreign media gets any less information than the japanese media. I think it's more of a difference in the way news is presented. The foreign media tends to demand all the details now where the japanese tend to wait for it to come to them. The press club system has made japanese reporters lazy and complacent, just how the corporations want them.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Though Jochen Legewie (anyone know what kind of name that is btw?) may have a point, I doubt that more info would have made the media any less sensationalistic.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

[SIZE="3"]Japan firms ignore foreign media at own peril: foreign media consultant[/SIZE]

FTFY!

IMHO, the disasters also unleashed another kind of disaster...how poor the ainstream media is at news coverage in this day and age. I think part of the problem regarding proliferation of information about the disasters had less to do with foreign or Japanese media and more to do with those on the frontlines having little idea of how to pass on best the things they did know about.