Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign

Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by fogetti on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:24AM (#23939890)

> can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still?

Looking at you Japan.

"The taming of Japan’s media watchdogs has attracted growing attention from overseas. On April 19, David Kaye, the U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of expression, wrapped up a weeklong fact-finding mission to Japan by expressing “deep and genuine concern” about declining media independence in Asia’s richest democracy. The following day, the Paris-based media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders lowered Japan’s place in its annual ranking of world press freedom to 72nd out of 180 nations, between Tanzania and Lesotho"

And no, this is not whataboutism. This is just a context so to understand that the above turn of events that the OP refers to is not unprecedented in other strong democracies either. Or is Japan an autocracy too?

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Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by pmlnr on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:28AM (#23939932)

> Or is Japan an autocracy too

In this specific case, I'm not certain there is a trivial answer. Having worked for a Japanese company, the unshakable hierarchy is unknown to Western culture.

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Re:Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members r... by toyg on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:58PM (#23941794)

> is Japan an autocracy too?

Ehh... it is a "flawed democracy" in that same index, as you would expect from a country where the same party has ruled almost uninterrupted for 65 years.

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