The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
"Surrogate speaker" is overflowing
Hasegawa
There is also a problem of how to interview, but from the viewpoint of neutrality of the report, for example, a person with the opposite opinion to a person who is close in opinion to himself.
There is a problem of whether you can interview purely and exactly the same way for both of them.
Ugaya
For those who are close in opinion, we used the word "surrogate speaker" in this book.
It is about people who reporters say what they want to say instead.
Commentator or critic, any professor familiar with something.
There are some experts who reinforce it when you want to set a direction in the article.
For example, the term "Abe administration's freedom of speech repressive" is, us to comment as "outrageous!" So-and-so Professor in the article.
The face is almost decided.
In that way, when reporters were not able to prove what they had to prove with facts in the original way, "I want to assert that, not only with reporters, this knowledge intellectual likes the same way "Who said reporters' words to say instead" is called a proxy speaker.
Such surrogate speakers are largely decided on a line by line basis.
Iwanami would like a series of Iwanami.
Addresses and contacts are written in the database of in-house personal computers, and bank accounts of remittance payee's bank accounts are written.
So when you call and ask "What do you think?", It usually says what I thought.
Because it could not find the basic facts in the interview, I believe that using such people themselves is a defeat as a reporter.
Hasegawa
I quite agree.
This draft continues.