TV Asahi Quiz Show cooks up Fake Blogs for Clues
The show was broadcast nationwide in Japan during last weekend’s prime time, and is a quiz show investigating whether superstitions and conventional beliefs actually work in real life. The anchorperson introduced six blog websites as examples of information collected via the Internet, which were presented as possible clues to the questions in the show.
TV-Asahi acknowledged the suspicion that the blog sites introduced in the program were fake, and it apologized for the fraud.
TV-Asahi is well-known as the broadcaster that world media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Softbank founder Masayoshi Son attempted to buy a major stake in a dozen years ago. Also, the broadcaster is infamous due to another scandal from two decades ago, in which it used actresses portraying crime victims in interview videos for news programming, a first in the Japanese TV industry’s 50-year history.
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TV Asahi has one other faking scandal in its past—nearly two decades ago, it was caught using actors to portray crime victims in a news video. For shame, TV Asahi. This is definitely not how one should take advantage of the Internet revolution. viaAsiajin
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Chaude réaction des blogueurs japonais qui se sont sentis trompés la semaine dernière par la TV Asahi après larévélation(anglais) que dans le spectacle de variétés ウソバスター！(Uso Basutaa !,lit. Chasse aux mensonges) retransmis en première heure le 10 Janvier, les blogs indiqués comme sources avaient été cré&
There are very few marketers (I am hoping) who would consciously create a blog where the author was not who they say they are unless it was done as a crystal clear parody or character blog. Although there aresurprises every day like TV Asahi out of Japan. On a recent quiz show: “The anchorperson introduced six blog websites as examples of information collected via the Internet, which were presented as possible clues to the questions in the show.TV-Asahi acknowledged the suspicion that the blog
projects. When images are used, the company fuzzes or otherwise distorts the pictures. (More here.) • Mainstream news programming likes to play up internet-related crimes in order to discredit new media. See the Smiley Kikuchi incident andAsahi’s creation of fake blogs to prove the internet wrong. Also, this indignation towards the net seemed to fuel Mainichi’s reaction to the Wai Wai debate. • Companies refuse to let their employees blog with real names on official corporate blogs, as “head hunters may steal away named
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