TOKYO — The power of Twitter, Facebook, and other social media to agitate the masses has been proven to work several times in the last couple of years. It seems that now anytime there is civil unrest occurring somewhere in the Middle East, users rush to share and spread messages, photos, and video of what [...]
We all saw the headlines after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010: the deaths, the destruction…then the looting. Images from CNN and other news networks trickled in to show desperate Haitians looking for food, water, and other things in the rubble. Then, mobs began to break into buildings which provoked US Forces [...]
Dolores M Bernal Reporting from Tokyo, And Gilbert Mercier Reporting From Los Angeles At least 18 people have been injured following North Korea’s launch of several artillery shells that struck a South Korean island. The attack happened on Tuesday at 2:40 pm (local Japan time). North Korea had not attacked South Korea since the 1953 [...]
It’s the big elephant in the room no one wants to talk about — the sick Napalese peacekeepers that arrived in Haiti in October. Even though there has been strong reporting, including from the BBC, that the infected water came from the Nepalese base located nearby the community where the cholera outbreak originated, the United [...]
Reporting from Tokyo Despite worldwide coverage that the cholera strain in Haiti may have come from sick Nepalese peacekeepers, Japan’s biggest media network, NHK, failed to provide complete coverage about it on its evening news on Thursday (local time). Instead, NHK portrayed Haitians as destructive and out of control failing also to mention that UN [...]
