September 22th 2021

      In today's class, we talked about how the media report the election. The impressive thing was that the media introduces the politician by talking about things that nothing relating to what are they going to do when they become the leader. 

I found an interesting photo that is introducing Japanese politicians in Japanese media. 

I thought by looking at these profiles (the photo above), I have a positive image of those people, but I realized that this is actually completely unrelatable to their political measures. However, I thought this is a good idea for people who never have an interest in politics, for having some of the interest. 

-memo-

reducing the number of the covid test

the active band

sending a message to people with music. 

vague things, specific politics. 

media only talk about vague things

vague things-people would support, specific things-people never support

sound bite politics

moderate position

government is a top of the small amount of rich people

bribery

September 16th 2021

    In today's class, we continued the discussion with the same groups we talked about last week. Today, we talked about the issue of the tax, and the punishment. 

    For the tax, as I wrote in the blog for the day before this day, we should know what kind of country is this. For example, if the country is suffering from a financial issue, the country should have a tax mechanism for the country that is able to collect the tax revenue stably. If the country has a disparity between rich and poor, they may have to think of the idea to collect the tax equally. 

    For the punishment, I thought the death penalty is needed. Of course, there are some risks, but it is needed for the victims to be calm. Also, the death penalty has a deterrence to prevent new crimes.

    Throughout this class, I found out that it is very difficult to think of the rules for the new country. As I am a conservative person, I am being afraid to alternate the law to the new one, and in reality, the opinion I am having was mostly the law that it is already in Japan. I thought I should be freer to think of new ideas and be more creative. 

 -memo-

the issue of tax

flat tax rate - an equal amount of tax

progressive tax - higher the salary, higher the percentage of the tax

in some country's charities do not pay tax

it needs to be clear to prevent being unfair, and tax evasion.

how do this country punish people

only the rich people can become a judge, but it is true that the judge must be educated properly.

death penalty

I am a conservative

conservative and progressive.

September 15th 2021

     In today's class, we broke up into a big group and talked about the rules we should have when we are having one new country. We thought about with a perspective of how old should people be able to vote, how can we choose the leader or even should really would we have the leader, should foreign people vote, and more．

     To be honest, it was very difficult for us to think of the rules, that when we thought about one rule, there would be some point that we can not cover, and the point that people would have a negative opinion on. So, I thought it is impossible to make a perfect country, with completely all of the people being sufficient in the country. When we have many perspectives and thousands of people with thousands of thoughts and backgrounds. So, I thought we should not demand perfect politics, and perfect laws, and be more flexible. 

      In addition, we can also say that today's activity was difficult because each of the countries did not have any configuration. If we could think of some of the settings of the country, such as developed country or developing country, many younger populations of older populations and more. If we have this, we can think of the law that is appropriate to each country. 

September 14th 2021

    Because of today's class, I thought about why Coca-Cola became so popular, even though it is very unhealthy. I looked up on my computer about the reason Coca-Cola being so popular. According to this, with my opinion, I thought Coca Cola is popular because the recognization from the people is very high, and it is simply delicious.

    Actually, most people do not think about what is involved in the drink, or how this drink affects their body. Consumers prioritize the impact, and the actual taste, more than their health. Also, I thought the consumers do not have a chance to recognize the negative information about Coca-Cola, because the Coca-cola company is a huge company that sponsors many newspaper companies. Of course, I think this could not happen, but actually, I can also not think out of other ways for the newspaper company to be managed and operated. 

    The clear thing is that people like us, should never believe one newspaper company, and always have a broad perspective. 

-memo-

 Muslims who does not drink the alcohol

But the sponsor of the soccer player put it in front of the Muslim soccer player

 Ronaldo

COke is not good for health-------the coca-cola company complained

Workers form the union

this makes the worker strong

killer coke campaign

kick coke of  campus campaign

coca cola is a big company that is a Sponsor of the media so the media do not report this

it was one campaign site

Everything was written in English or Spanish

no websites in Japanese

September 9th 2021

     Today, we talked about the news company's job that they had to provide people truly, and non-biased articles, only writing the fact about what happened. I thought this is an obligation for the news company to not limit the citizen's thoughts. 

     I think, when the newspaper that I read has a bias on their report, I would unconsciously be on their side and have thoughts that this news company has. It is because the perspectives that I could have would be limited by the biased article, and there would be less chance to have a contract with the other thoughts and perspectives. 

    I looked up on the fox news page, and most of the articles that I saw, had a biased headline. There were many articles that used the word "defend" which is a biased word, and an informal word (slang) was used frequently. I thought many people would be controlled by the words they use. 

Like this, I thought the news company should use a word that is not biased to never limit the reader's thoughts. 

Memo

The vote was 4-5-be attention to numbers

The news organization has a job to tell the news correctly, trustfully

Editorial pages   where they tell the biases(2－3)

Editorial things could never be on page 1

Canada anti-logging protest

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/08/canada-logging-protest-vancouver-island

the company is cutting down the trees, and many people are protesting against that. In this report, there is no biases and position in this news. THis is what all of the news companies must do. 

editor must check that there are no positions in the article

Dem senate candidate to campaign with liberal donor who boasted about 8-hour dinner with fIdal castro

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/finkenauer-democrat-campaigns-liberal-donor-boasted-dining-fidel-castro?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20foxnews%2Fpolitics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%29

this article has bias

misleading

Psaki defends Biden snapping at reporters over Afghanistan questions: He was 'done'