NARRATIVE – Masahiro Nakai, one of the country’s most famous TV hosts, is accused of assaulting a FujiTV presenter in 2023. The media remained silent before a shareholder of the channel took offense at the non-treatment of the affair.
Comment not talk about it? This is the equation that the major Japanese media have tried to answer since one of the most famous stars of the Archipelago, Masahiro Nakai, admitted to having caused a “sexual problem” to a television presenter from the Fuji TV channel. After several investigative media revealed the affair, the country’s television channels and main dailies, among the most powerful media on the planet, competed for weeks of inertia and silence in harmonious unanimity. In tune with Fuji TV. Even after hearing about the facts from the victim. Even after the star paid lip service to unacceptable behavior.
On Friday, the channel’s general director attempted the beginnings of justification in a strange press conference behind closed doors, without a camera, for co-opted journalists, which was less focused on the search for truth than on its obfuscation. “Maybe the…
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