大手新聞の凋落は止まることはないけれど、テレビメディアも今回のフジテレビ問題を契機に、見直しが進んで行く趨勢でしょう。そこに今回トランプ政権から「USAID」への大ナタが振るわれて、アメリカのいわゆる「DS」がどのように世界のメディアをコントロールしてきたのか、その「金の流れ」が解明されようとしてきている。いまのところ情報不足で断片的ではあるけれど、どのような「支配構造」がこれまでにあったのか、世界の言論についての情報操作の実態の開示はぜひ求めたい。
わたし自身、戦後教育を受けてきてその脳内支配構造の中で生きてきた人間なので、その教育のベースに「戦勝国家」アメリカとくに、戦争指導でアメリカを勝利に導いた「民主党」＝ルーズベルト（ローズベルトという方がより正確な発音表記とも言われるけれど）の方針によって戦後日本国家は大枠を嵌められてきたことはあきらか。今回の共和党トランプ政権の動きは、こういう基幹部分についても本当にどこまで情報開示することになるのか、非常に興味深い。自分自身がどう影響されてきたのか、ひとりの人間として棺桶に入るまでに確認できる機会だと思っています。
さて、一方で最近の日本では政治動向にSNSが顕著に影響を拡大してきている。兵庫県知事選挙などに典型的でそれ自体は自然なことですが、国政段階でもいろいろな動きが出てきている。
そういうなかで、一般人として疑問に思っていることが、表題のようなことです。youtube動画などでは再生時に広告表示されて、その再生回数に応じて広告収入が得られている。そのこと自体はシステム上、当然のことだろうとは思うけれど、しかし政党活動・政治活動での利用でも、広告収入が得られるというのは、政治を大きくゆがめてしまうのではないか。まさに政治と金問題そのもの。
通常のメディア的な情報活動について広告が付くのはいいけれど、政治活動・言論にこういうバイアス要因があり得るというのは、危険性を感じさせられる。非常に偏った言説、それもヒステリーを煽る傾向に「金儲け・ビジネス的な動機」を与えてしまう危険性があり、拍車を掛けることになるのではないだろうか。実際、一部でそのような「煽られた集団」とおぼしき傾向も見られている。
より良識的な民意の判断力を維持するために、考えて行かなければならないのではないか？
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[Questions about ‘ad revenue’ even in the use of social networking sites for political activities].
The reality of USAID's activities has been brought to the surface by the Trump administration. The question of whether our brains have been warped in the form of post-war education? ...
The decline of the major newspapers will not stop, but the TV media is also likely to undergo a review following the Fuji TV issue. Then, the Trump administration has taken a major swipe at USAID, and the so-called ‘DS’ in the US is about to reveal how it has controlled the world's media and the ‘flow of money’. Although information is currently lacking and fragmentary, we would like to know what kind of ‘control structure’ has existed so far, and we would like to see the disclosure of the actual state of information manipulation in the world's speech.
I myself was educated in the post-war education system and have been living in its brain-controlling structure, so my education was based on the policy of the ‘victorious nation’ of the US, especially the ‘Democrat’ Roosevelt (although it is said that Rosevelt is a more accurate pronunciation), who led the US to victory in the war and who, in the post-war period, was responsible for the establishment of the Japanese state. It is clear that the Japanese state has been largely framed by the policies of the ‘Democrats’, who led the US to victory in the war. It will be very interesting to see how far the Republican Trump administration will really go in disclosing information about these core elements. I think it is an opportunity for me, as a human being, to check how I myself have been affected by the situation before I go into the coffin.
Now, on the other hand, social networking has been remarkably expanding its influence on political trends in Japan recently. Typical examples include the Hyogo Prefecture gubernatorial election, which in itself is a natural phenomenon, but there have also been various developments at the national political level.
In this context, as a member of the general public, I have a question about the above-mentioned matter: on Youtube videos, advertisements are displayed during playback, and advertising income is earned according to the number of times the video is played. This in itself is a natural part of the system, but the fact that advertising income can be earned even when used for party and political activities distorts politics greatly, doesn't it? This is the very problem of politics and money itself.
It is fine that advertising is attached to normal media-like information activities, but the fact that this kind of bias factor is possible in political activities and discourse is a danger. There is a danger of giving a ‘money-making/business motive’ to a very biased discourse, a tendency that could also fuel hysteria, and spur it on. In fact, there is a tendency in some quarters to dread such ‘agitated groups’.
We have to think about this in order to maintain a more sensible judgment of public opinion, don't we?
