Dear Steve: Has anyone seen the latest idiocy of your chldish friends -
the attempt to run a racist anti-Japan cartoon spoofing the 100 year old
Little Black Sambo children's nursery story?.
It is time something was done about those friends.
Here we are not talking about which bathhouse in Otaru excluded foreigners
or not.
We are not even talking about your anti-Japan racist chief bathhouse
moralist with his former posts about using lies, spin and fabrication to
bring the Japanese population to heel.
We are talkng about a concerted campaign to use totally false material,
consistently and possibly with the help of intelligence agencies, to
blacken the reputation of one of the few people to oppose the Vietnam War
and other Western foreign policy atrocities back in the 1970's.
Even the Murdoch press felt obliged under legal pressure to run a
retraction. I notice that you and your friends do not even make that
precaution in your determination to indulge in your childish vendetta.
Maybe it is time to exert similar pressure.
GC
GregoryClarknet@googlegroups.com writes:
>It appears this posting has "disappeared", thus the repost. I note that
>the article is still in its original form on Mr. Clark's website
>despite having been shown to contain numerous errors and fabrications.
>-----
>Date: Fri, Mar 25 2005 7:08 pm
>From: "SS"
>It appears that Mr. Clark's Feb. 17 column, "Racist Banner Looks
>Frayed," has been withdrawn by the Japan Times from its website. Links
>to the article appear with an error message, and a list of Mr. Clark's
>columns on the site does not include the column. I am pleased to see
>that the Japan Times has apparently recognized the distortions and
>fabrications in this column and decided to pull it from their site. I
>hope that this is part of an effort by the paper to reevaluate Mr.
>Clark's position as a columnist.
>Of course, Mr. Clark still continues to publish the original article
>and translation on his website without correction and refuses to
>publicly acknowledge his errors, all the while handing out his usual
>personal attacks and cries of "nitpicking" to those who call on him to
>take responsibility.
>Mr. Clark's credibility is non-existent, and continuing to keep him on
>as a columnist does damage to the credibility of the Japan Times as
>well. One cannot read his articles anymore without wondering if his
>claims are indeed accurate or just another fabrication to back up his
>opinion. If a journalist has to maintain a fiction in order to support
>his position, then perhaps he has to reevaluate his position -- and his
>choice of profession as well.
>Steve Silver
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