Reporter kicks house wall after resident refuses interview over Vietnamese girl's murder

A reporter, covering a very tragic and sensitive case, kicking someones wall because they didn't want to be interviewed? You've got to lose your job for that surely?

Shoulda' got his --- beat.

So, any mention of anger management counseling for this little boy?

What a moron!

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Despite of its buusiness relation with Kyodo, JT revealed this

Why not? It is news isn't it?

This family just lost their child!!!! How insensitive, cruel, and self-centered can you be? He needs to lose his job!!

If you can't report the news, BE the news!!

The thing is, I think he was trying to intimidate/force the resident to give an interview by kicking the wall after they refused. He thought the person would become fearful and agree to his request. But his "plan" didn't work. He was just trying to be a hotshot.

@ Mirai Hayashi Today 08:28 am JST This family just lost their child!!!!

It seems to me it was a neighbor, rather than the actual family of the victim.

Still ridiculous behaviour from any grown up human being.

Japanese journalists are really awful. We had a pseudo scandal in our area some years back, and the reporters were walking around the whole community asking personal questions that really... were just the kind of dumb stuff you see in lurid weekly magazines. Just any old information that could sell some copy. Very unprofessional bottom fishing.

But wait. There is more. I drew the line when they started bugging kids as they walked home from school. They would follow the kids home and talk to their parents. A "guy I know" started shadowing and shaming the journalists and their employers for bothering the children and interfering with them as they walked to and from school. A lot of parents were apparently very supportive of the anti-muckraking guy, but would not say so publicly, lest they be swept up in the witch hunt.

Do not support this. The public's right to know trivia is not more important than a child's right to privacy and a safe and stable environment. Does this guy who kicked the house REALLY THINK that some random person has some information that is going to tell us all why some guy killed some school girl? Then he ought to tell the police. If not, then leave the community alone.

Do not forget that the town where this murder occurred is full of people who have paid their respects to the deceased and the family. They need to move on with their lives. We rely on the justice system to handle the rest. Go to the courthouse. Leave the community alone.

Real news does not get reported nearly enough, but boy oh boy, a few juicy words from a neighbor can make you a king for a day in the tabloids. These reporters are vultures. And they are lazy. And they prey on weak people.

"The thing is, I think he was trying to intimidate/force the resident to give an interview by kicking the wall after they refused. He thought the person would become fearful and agree to his request. But his "plan" didn't work. He was just trying to be a hotshot."

My first guess was that the reporter's boss had ordered him to come back with a quote from that neighbor, by hook or by crook, and when the neighbor wouldn't do it, the hapless reporter couldn't contain his frustration. You see this all the time in Japanese society: A orders B to get something from C, and when C can't deliver, what can B, stuck in the middle, do? He knows there will be hell to pay from A when he comes back empty-handed.

If this were the situation, in a perfect world, reporter B would tell his boss to quit being so insensitive to neighbors of a dead child, but we all know that he can't ever do that.

"come back with a quote from that neighbor, by hook or by crook, and when the neighbor wouldn't do it, the hapless reporter couldn't contain his frustration. "

Really all this says is that journalism is the problem. There is no need to obfuscate it or sugar coat it. If the only way to do your job is to bully and intimidate vulnerable people, you might as well work for the yakuza.

Every single day I see twisted logic and lazy reporting spewing forth from news services, and this guy kicking some person's house just epitomizes the ignorance and arrogance of today's media. Some lip service gets paid to "fake news," but everyone has their favorite echo chamber and muckraking rag, so we shrug it off and go back to our bubble.

But what happens to communities? You know, this same stuff happened after 3.11, with journalists complaining that information was being released in Japanese, stories about Fukushima being filed from Hong Kong and Singapore. And the eventual stigmatization and harassment of displaced people in Fukushima. It is just awful and I saw it all.

The press is now being used over and over in a type of legal coercion and 'trial by media' of many companies even before any legal verdict has been made. Before any jury hears a single fact or argument, people are convinced that xyz company committed some heinous crime. Who needs a legal system when we have tabloids?

It is a sorry state of affairs. And just like this guy kicking a bystanders house, it is entirely out of control.