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I realized that this blog is mostly not weekly…  So I’ve changed the title. (Now, this is not an excuse to not posting blogs periodically…)

The videos featured on iUniv recently were picked in the wake of the recent media frenzy in Japan, when a famous TV personality announced his sudden retirement.  He used to be pretty much involved in the ‘variety show’ market and he hosted many of them, producing younger talents and their songs, etc.  Not that Insider was a fan (Insider tries to be neutral, not to voice his/her personal tastes), but he will surely be missed by many people in the entertainment business. 

So Insider picked up contents that have something to do with TV productions and ‘reality’ business, including this one:

Nagoya University
スタジオチャンネル現代ジャーナリズム論41平成20年7月3日
http://iuniv.tv/top/episode/eid/60426/pid/3686

In this discussion taped in July 2008 (The 20th year of Heisei era), they focused on the reasons why there were so many scandals on broadcasting frauds on commercial television.  They attributed them to the so-called ‘rating supremacist’ trend, and to the fact that many programs are made by small production companies that have been relegated the making of the programs, in order to save budgets.