1000 THANK YOU'S

I now have reached the 1000 mark in subscribership. Back in September it was about 60. I have to thank all of you and the many who have shared my posts and commented.

I am a semi-retired 76-year-old Canadian media professional marooned in Tokyo. I live alone with two cats in a small apartment. After a stint as a stringer in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, I ended up in Japan on a Buddhist study visa; then went on to work for some of the world’s largest companies in Japan and abroad and almost every Japanese governmental division, which means that I know a lot about the ugly kluge that is the innermost workings of so-called “neoliberalism— not to mention media manipulation.

Mind you, while I have been a media whore, I never kissed my clients on the mouth. I have some principles.

I am not all that smart, but my ASD makes me polymathic which to those not familiar with this kind of thing sometimes comes across as giftedness. But I am dyslexic, dyspraxic, dysgraphic, dyscalculic— dys-this; dys-that.

What am I doing with News Forensics? My life working with media taught me that the “news” is to “truth”, what a fake orgasm is to love.

This site is penance.

Or maybe I do this because throughout my life, so many people—sometimes strangers— helped me when I really needed it.

At this age, I need to give something back.

All I have is this strange, way of seeing the world.

It’s like an old broken window, with pieces of smudgy glass scotch-taped in place, offering a fractured view of the what’s outside. I have to look carefully, from different angles, to see what is happening, to compensate for the distortions and sometimes see things that other do not. Of course, I often get things wrong. At the same time, I hopefully make useful connections.

Once again, thank you! Now that I have reached the 1000 mark, I will start considering donations to buy my two boy cats, Jet and Ichi kibble.