{"id":4078,"date":"2009-09-05T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2009-09-05T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T08:22:12","slug":"japan-times-interviews-dave-spector-on-japanese-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4078","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times interviews Dave Spector on Japanese Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0We’ve been talking about the media quite a bit lately. \u00a0Now let’s read an interview with someone on the other side, who is, according to the Japanese media polls, one of the, if not the, most trusted and popular commentators in Japanese TV. \u00a0Dave Spector. \u00a0Yes, Dave Spector, who incidentally has been a very kind supporter of Debito.org. \u00a0Excerpt from JT article follows. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Osaka<\/p>\n

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The Japan Times, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHO’S WHO
\nSpontaneous Japanese TV keeps Dave Spector on his toes<\/strong><\/p>\n

By EDAN CORKILL\u00a0By Staff writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090804ww.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Jackson’s death meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For Japanese television celebrity Dave Spector, it meant being woken on the morning of June 26 at 6 a.m. and spending most of the next two weeks either studying or commenting on the performer for the benefit of Japanese television audiences.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“The extent of the interest has surprised me,” the 55-year-old Chicago-native said late last month. “But, you know, there are so many angles to the story, so many unanswered questions.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And, as has become the norm whenever major news breaks in the English-speaking world, Spector has been busy appearing on dozens of programs, helping the Japanese viewers make sense of it all.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Article continues at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090804ww.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Dave Spector’s media ranking this year: \u00a0(pdf file, click to download)<\/p>\n

spectorpoll2009<\/a><\/p>\n

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We’ve been talking about the media quite a bit lately. Now let’s read an interview with someone on the other side, who is, according to the Japanese media polls, one of the, if not the, most trusted and popular commentators in Japanese TV. Dave Spector. Yes, Dave Spector, who has been a very kind supporter of Debito.org. Excerpt from JT article follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issue","category-immigration-assimilation","category-media","category-tangents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}