Therm_Kitty wrote:
1. It's not the sports section, that's the whole paper. It's a cultural thing that makes no real sense. If you want to read gossip, you pick up the sports paper.
I actually already knew about Japan's smaller topical newspapers (from a
Case Closed manga that I read, which dealt with one), I was just using the more familiar term "sports section" for the sake of brevity. I didn't want to have to explain myself to people who
weren't familiar with them.
The way they do it makes more sense, if you ask me. I don't subscribe to any newspapers, so when I read them, I have to pay for them off the rack, and it's usually only to read a few sections. It'd be nice to only have to pay for the ones I use. I don't see that ever happening here though, because whether they lean left or right, newspaper editors
always feel the need to force their political beliefs and spin on current events onto everyone. Focusing on just one or two topics would severely limit their ability to do this, especially if that topic was a decidedly non-political one, like sports or community events.
I didn't know about the gossip bit of it though, that's pretty weird. I gotta wonder how it even started... it'd be like using
Seventeen to talk about Medicare issues concerning senior citizens.