“What’s wrong with that？” teasing a rookie， Shohei Ohtani’s “refusal to be interviewed，” ban from baseball．．． “We the media” and “bubble thinking” are behind the daily outrages．
2024/11/14 The show may be produced with the intention that “if it’s not fun, it’s not TV,” but it’s only drawing criticism. Fuji TV will broadcast the fifth game of the World Series for Shohei Ohtani’s Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers won the series, and Fuji tried to interview Ohtani after the game, but he seemed to refuse. “The big smile he’d had up until then suddenly changed to a glaring expression” (TV magazine reporter) De facto “ban” And that’s not all. “Newcomer announcer Kotaro Uegaki was teased by his company seniors Kikue Nishiyama and Ryusei Ikuta, who said that Uegaki looked old. “It looked like the seniors were mocking their juniors, and criticism was rampant” (sports newspaper reporter) Furthermore, “Fuji TV aired a digest of the World Series behind the scenes of the Japan Series broadcast. It has been reported that the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) has retracted the Japan Series coverage passes it had provided to Fuji TV, effectively banning them from the show” (same sports newspaper reporter, same below). Fuji TV has been under fire for a long time, but it also has a terrible criminal record that continues to this day. “It is said that Otani was furious with Fuji TV because they exposed his new home. Fuji TV even went into excessive detail about the inside of his new home in Los Angeles. It was reported that he was stripped of his Dodgers coverage pass for this reason.” “Bubble mentality” remains within the company However, there is a further criminal history behind this. When pitcher Masahiro Tanaka was with the New York Yankees, Fuji reported that “Tanaka’s home is Trump Tower.” And not once, but twice. And he didn’t live there, so it wasn’t true or anything.” Weighing two things and prioritizing one has been done before… “The reason why ‘Downtown’s Gottsu Ee Kanji’ was suddenly canceled in 1997 was because they stopped broadcasting the show and went ahead with the broadcast of a game that could have decided the winner of the Japan Series. Matsumoto Hitoshi got angry and the show was ended.” Is the repeated backlash a problem with Fuji’s corporate culture? A former employee said: “Looking at the recent scandals and similar cases, Fuji has always shown no respect for others. When the numbers looked promising, they violated Ohtani’s privacy while at the same time proudly congratulating him. Extremely shameless. Even in the case of the cancellation of Major League Baseball, NPB, and Gottsu, if they had sincerely explained the situation to both parties, the outcome might have been slightly different, but they failed to do so. Apart from the youngest generations in their 20s, older generations still have a bubble-like mindset of “we are the media.” Not just towards others or other companies, but also within the company. With newcomers, I think, “I’m making it fun, what’s wrong with it (lol),” even now that the controversy has been raging.” If it wasn’t for the controversy, it wouldn’t be Fuji — right?
>>13 I know this is an afterthought, but that was a turning point for the times. Since then, television has been gradually abandoned and we have moved into an era where the Internet plays a central role.
I guess people still expected something from Fuji TV back when they held demonstrations in front of the company’s headquarters. Such a project will never happen again. I just realize that I haven’t been watching Fuji TV lately.
>>16 The people who participated were probably from the generation that grew up watching Hyokinzoku, Dorifu Daibakusho, Bakatono, Gottsuee, etc. If they were abandoned by them, they might not be able to recover.
Even though it’s a company that epitomizes ties, he was making sarcastic remarks about hereditary succession. During an interview with Nikai’s son (laughs).
Fuji is finished too. With a sense like this, they should just merge with another station. I’m sure Fuji TV is happy about this loving insult, so it can be forgiven.
About 30 years ago, Yamagata TV betrayed Fuji TV and switched to TV Asahi, which in some ways was a good decision. Incidentally, Sakuranbo TV, which opened in Yamagata later, has become like a graveyard in the commercial TV industry, with employees quitting one after another due to power harassment by their superiors.
>>31 I cut it off completely after that incident I just happened to notice that Kazu-kyo was still there after a long time I don’t know if he has a strong or weak mentality.
Fuji TV may be the lowest-ranked commercial broadcasting station now, but it was the top commercial broadcasting station about 15 years ago, before the Korean wave caused protests. The young people from back then are now in high positions, and in a way they have a better sense of the bubble era than the bubble generation.
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