Japanese Media Practices Self-Restraint Amid Hostage Crisis

PleiadesRising said:
If this were the USA instead of Japan, would they "make jokes about that on TV"? Well, we just need to look back to post 9/11 America and we'll notice how Cartoon Network didn't take a similar situation too lightly itself.

When they aired Cowboy Bebop, after 9/11, they didn't show "Cowboy Funk" (I think they also didn't show "Waltz for Venus", as well), due to some imagery and content, e.g. buildings being targeted and aircraft being hijacked. Even when it came to issues that did not deal with some level of political violence, Cartoon Network showed similar restraint: they didn't air "Wild Horses" after the Columbia shuttle explosion, which was featured prominently in that episode.

These are pretty much network decisions, where they make a judgment call on when to self-censor their programming. However, we need to be clear here on that term "censoring", which often invites hasty responses directed at governmental controls. The kind of censorship here is less official government censoring and more broadcasting standards type censoring. You'll even see this kind of stuff in news agencies where they have self-imposed codes of conduct to work with in addition to their editorial decision-making on what to release and what to hold back. (In the US, there's the code of ethics crafted by the Society of Professional Journalists, while in Canada you have the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council with their own code of ethics.) Hence, you won't find un-cut beheadings on any major North American news agency. Their codes of conduct or editorial judgments rule those out.

Basically, it isn't ISIS forcing the decisions or even a government, but the networks and individuals themselves. They're not merely making their decisions based entirely on sensitivity, but also in regard to their own ethical codes. And it seems that their own intuitive judgments say broadcasting or publishing something in that immediate context isn't the right thing to do in their society. In sum, it's self-censoring being informed by an ethical code (official or personal).

PleiadesRising said:
If this were the USA instead of Japan, would they "make jokes about that on TV"? Well, we just need to look back to post 9/11 America and we'll notice how Cartoon Network didn't take a similar situation too lightly itself.

When they aired Cowboy Bebop, after 9/11, they didn't show "Cowboy Funk" (I think they also didn't show "Waltz for Venus", as well), due to some imagery and content, e.g. buildings being targeted and aircraft being hijacked. Even when it came to issues that did not deal with some level of political violence, Cartoon Network showed similar restraint: they didn't air "Wild Horses" after the Columbia shuttle explosion, which was featured prominently in that episode.

These are pretty much network decisions, where they make a judgment call on when to self-censor their programming. However, we need to be clear here on that term "censoring", which often invites hasty responses directed at governmental controls. The kind of censorship here is less official government censoring and more broadcasting standards type censoring. You'll even see this kind of stuff in news agencies where they have self-imposed codes of conduct to work with in addition to their editorial decision-making on what to release and what to hold back. (In the US, there's the code of ethics crafted by the Society of Professional Journalists, while in Canada you have the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council with their own code of ethics.) Hence, you won't find un-cut beheadings on any major North American news agency. Their codes of conduct or editorial judgments rule those out.

Basically, it isn't ISIS forcing the decisions or even a government, but the networks and individuals themselves. They're not merely making their decisions based entirely on sensitivity, but also in regard to their own ethical codes. And it seems that their own intuitive judgments say broadcasting or publishing something in that immediate context isn't the right thing to do in their society. In sum, it's self-censoring being informed by an ethical code (official or personal).

forverersr3 said:
Ha ha ha
First of all sorry for my bad english

I singed in just for write some comment for this news

I live in Syria. All your country's media enterpises filtering news.Just telling lie.
In Syria ISIS a terrorism.His existence for Israel.for Isreal's safe.SO no one going to destroy or fight them.If someone wants to save us,they already did this.But no one care us.ISIS killed my 2 relative when they tried to escape to Turkey.Of course ISIS not a muslim.But they says "We are muslim" and make a huge muslim-fobi arround the world.USA,Israel and ISIS working together for eliminate Palantine.Everyday 100+ people killed there.SO NO ONE TRY STOP THIS.
Lastly i heard this 2 japan media personal died in traffic ancient in Turkey.Even i think ISIS kill them.Dont trust media enterpises,do ur search

PleiadesRising said:
If this were the USA instead of Japan, would they "make jokes about that on TV"? Well, we just need to look back to post 9/11 America and we'll notice how Cartoon Network didn't take a similar situation too lightly itself.

When they aired Cowboy Bebop, after 9/11, they didn't show "Cowboy Funk" (I think they also didn't show "Waltz for Venus", as well), due to some imagery and content, e.g. buildings being targeted and aircraft being hijacked. Even when it came to issues that did not deal with some level of political violence, Cartoon Network showed similar restraint: they didn't air "Wild Horses" after the Columbia shuttle explosion, which was featured prominently in that episode.

These are pretty much network decisions, where they make a judgment call on when to self-censor their programming. However, we need to be clear here on that term "censoring", which often invites hasty responses directed at governmental controls. The kind of censorship here is less official government censoring and more broadcasting standards type censoring. You'll even see this kind of stuff in news agencies where they have self-imposed codes of conduct to work with in addition to their editorial decision-making on what to release and what to hold back. (In the US, there's the code of ethics crafted by the Society of Professional Journalists, while in Canada you have the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council with their own code of ethics.) Hence, you won't find un-cut beheadings on any major North American news agency. Their codes of conduct or editorial judgments rule those out.

Basically, it isn't ISIS forcing the decisions or even a government, but the networks and individuals themselves. They're not merely making their decisions based entirely on sensitivity, but also in regard to their own ethical codes. And it seems that their own intuitive judgments say broadcasting or publishing something in that immediate context isn't the right thing to do in their society. In sum, it's self-censoring being informed by an ethical code (official or personal).

Valkee said:
Isis why are you even doing this. We can all love each other! Koi!

LastChapter said:
And here's America, where we released The Interview because Obama said so.