Re: Yaocho - whose fault is it really?

[Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]

At 16:06 -0800 4/2/00, Masumi Abe wrote:
> As I posted before, the name of 17 rikishi and the speculative
> matches are the ones in the article based on an interview of
> Itai. The magazine is Shukan Gendai or Weely Gendai copy I own.
> It's not an imagination of me or the weekly magazine. If it is an
> imagination, that is of Mr. Itai himself.

> Moti-kun wrote:
> >
> > > Of the 17 yaocho rikishi at Kyushu listed by Itai, twelve
> > > definitely fit the category of Maegashira rikishi, and a case
> > > could be made for one or two others.
> >
> > I think it was clarified that he didn't name names and that the 17
> > rikishis mentioned were a figment of another newspaper's imagination' as
> > per Doreen who was actually there..

No, let's get this quite clear. Abe-san posted the introductory statement
made by Itai at the beginning of the second press conference, and then in
the next sentence he added the list of names copied from Shukan Gendai,
without saying that it came from a different source. Anybody not knowing the
facts would have thought that Abe-san was still reporting the content of the
second press conference. In cases like this, it is important to make it
clear who said what, and when, and where -- especially since the tide turned
quite noticeably in that second conference.

I'm busy trying to write an article on the whole phenomenon  of "decade-old
scandal becomes world news"  and "notorious bout-fixer finds a conscience
nine years after retirement, coincidentally at the same time as his
restaurant is in financial trouble, rakes up exactly same dirt as his own
former mentor and stablemaster but spices it up with names of today's big
stars" -- so don't want to join this thread too actively. If it gets into
print, I'll certainly try to get permission to copy it to the list. Those in
Japan, look out for tomorrow's Japan Times. Sunday is when Marty Kuehnert's
sports column comes out, and he was really pushing the questions.


Doreen in sumoland

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