{"id":1875,"date":"2009-01-13T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2009-01-13T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T10:55:07","slug":"tv-asahi-quiz-show-cooks-up-fake-blogs-for-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/tv-asahi-quiz-show-cooks-up-fake-blogs-for-clues\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Asahi Quiz Show cooks up Fake Blogs for Clues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1876\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/tv-asahi.jpg\" alt=\"tv-asahi\" width=\"124\" height=\"51\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">Tokyo-headquartered private TV broadcaster <a href=\"http:\/\/company.tv-asahi.co.jp\/e\/\">TV-Asahi<\/a> used fake blog sites on its quiz show, fabricated by the program&#8217;s production staff as a real news source for the show&#8217;s questions, and as a result, the broadcaster\u00a0is being heavily criticized by audiences and TV watchdogs.<\/div>\n<p>The show was broadcast nationwide in Japan during last weekend&#8217;s prime time, and is a quiz show investigating whether superstitions and conventional beliefs actually work in real life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The anchorperson introduced six blog websites as examples of information collected\u00a0via the Internet, which were presented as possible clues to the questions in the show.<br \/>\nTV-Asahi acknowledged the suspicion that\u00a0the blog sites introduced in the program were fake, and it apologized for the fraud.<br \/>\nTV-Asahi is well-known as the broadcaster that <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9504E0DD1539F932A15755C0A960958260\">world media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Softbank founder Masayoshi Son attempted to buy a major stake in<\/a> a dozen years ago.\u00a0\u00a0 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&#8217;s 50-year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo-headquartered private TV broadcaster TV-Asahi used fake blog sites on its quiz show, fabricated by the program&#8217;s production staff as a real news source for the show&#8217;s questions, and as a result, the broadcaster\u00a0is being heavily criticized by audiences and TV watchdogs. The show was broadcast nationwide in Japan during last weekend&#8217;s prime time, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/tv-asahi-quiz-show-cooks-up-fake-blogs-for-clues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TV Asahi Quiz Show cooks up Fake Blogs for Clues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[3843],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-tv-asahi","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}