My reaction about public shouting match – “Osaka mayor vs. head of anti-Korean group”

Summary
Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto invited Makoto Sakurai, who was a head of Zaitokukai, one of the anti-Korean groups and had a meeting. However, not only they could not find their point of compromise, they just criticized what the other said.
Hashimoto said Sakurai and Zaitokukai discriminate Koreans as all of them hate Japanese and discriminate Japanese. Also he told Sakurai that Osaka city do not want people who are racists.
One of Korean journalist did not want people to think the two were similar because their attitudes looked like same.

Reaction
I watched the full video of this meeting on Youtube. For my surprise, before Hashimoto appeared, Sakurai scolded journalists who came to the meeting one by one, because he thought they painted Zaitokukai in lurid colors in their reports. Looking his attitude like a teacher scolded little students, I got bad impression to Sakurai. This impression did not change until the meeting ended when Hashimoto went out from the room, with being abused by Sakurai like “A coward!”
I thought Hashimoto was right then. However, a comment on Youtube made me thinking. The comment said the meeting was a strategy of Hashimoto, to plant bad feeling in people’s mind in over world.
After I read the comment, I realized the power of media, editing information into “News” and telling us.
In my opinion, we sometimes have to get original information.
I do not mean all media are not good like Sakurai. Media summarize original information to understand easily. However, at same time, they reduce information which is not important or good for them.
How we can get information like this?
I think the answer is finding first information –original. Useful tools like Youtube will help that.
To know whole information of “news”, we have to get first information and think about it by ourselves.

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