Short Story:
was once a daily Mainichi , 4th in circulation in Japan (I know: it pays for the louts, but even so we speak in the suc-mundu newspaper-newspaper stands) that in its English edition decided to put a column of "news humor" that at some point he decided to feed the humor and Weird notes with simple and plain lies.
This column is called Waiwai and, being one of the few sources in English from the Japanese press, eventually became an obligatory reference to international journalism, when taking any cable news in Japan.
Everything went well (except, of course, for years the West believed that great things happened in Japan) until sometime a Japanese foreign realized that signing the Mainichi newspaper said in Waiwai fictitious notes were taken abroad as truthful. The restrained in their country complained and so began the debacle: readers and advertisers rejected Waiwai column and the newspaper was forced to withdraw from the English edition of his diary, in addition to fire those responsible.
With that, the West will stay with the boring real life notes and the Japanese can sleep easy, knowing that the world is not going to shock of occurrences such as: Restaurants where you eat and rape animals, sexually Japanese easy or a country where everyone has an inflatable doll.
Waiwai A video
read the full story at this link.
But in this one, I heard the story that invented a small country-western end: Ecuador.
turns out that in a happy day came the news "dummy" column Waiwai:
In Ecuador, Japanese can, According To the men's weekly, hunt for Children in a Different Manner as They Are Armed with a rifle and permitted to track down to youth let loose in the jungle. About 10 Japanese Have so far taken part in the tours, with only three at getting a shot off target and no fatalities Their report.
I put these words in the English translator of Japanese and rarest characters left. Then I put the characters very rare in English translation and went something like this:
In Ecuador, as a weekly for men, the Japanese can hunt children in different ways: they are armed with a rifle and allowed to pursue infants who have been abandoned in the jungle. About 10 Japanese have been part of these tours, and only 3 have been shooting their targets and no fatalities have been reported (In tourism).
not know how to take it when a power Ecuadorians imagine crazy things about the country, but usually it gives me grace. Like when Bender and hundreds of robots are going to a party at the Galapagos Islands in Futurama.
But is not the same erroneous reference in a comedy like Full House or as I dream of Gennie, but if there is a story, apparently seriously, in a newspaper column, apparently seriously, things change.
seems nobody has hitherto been known about the press release "false", but the first protest since Ecuador was nothing less than a Japanese resident in this country. His concern was only logical if tomorrow this note appears as "true" in Ecuador, some lunatic's would take seriously and perhaps would ever seek revenge with the first Japanese to find.
This is the post that reproduces the complaint of the Japanese.
I could not read, has been in Japanese!
Japanese visit told us that his life was put at risk by the lightness of the daily newspaper Mainichi. has received feedback that it described as alarmist, but he based his concerns on the high rate of violence in our country, illustrating it with a link to the newspaper Extra. Quaint
story to discuss various current issues such as banning the police to facilitate access to the morgue and accidents to chronic journalists red international perceptions about the insecurity in Ecuador or simply the patron of our perception : longfin seeing us while in the international blogosphere bateroyal is armed with our name in the middle.
and on what terms the complaint of the Japanese? The story is explained in detail in globalvoicesonline . For now, the queue will close Waiwai and, within a few years, will be a case study in some schools of social communication.
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