Fackler

Martin Fackler's "Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened" presented a fear-inspiring narrative that does little more than perpetuate myths that benefit the rich.

Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media Lynn Parramore 2010

My fellow graduate student and research colleague, Orrin Fackler and I were working shifts together, putting together an experiment at Brookhaven National

George F. Smoot - Autobiography 2007

Snip from New York Times article by Martin Fackler on the downsides of extreme inbreeding of pets in Japan:

Boing Boing 2006

Source: John Markoff and Martin Fackler, The New York Times, via CNET News. com, June 27, 2006

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And Bruce Mahler, who plays coroner and first victim Axel, is best known as Fackler in the Police Academy movies and as Rabbi Glickman on Seinfeld.

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And the dismal vision Fackler outlines will emerge in the U.S. if we buy into his false narrative.

Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media Lynn Parramore 2010

Fackler draws his analogy between the U.S. and Japan beginning with the Japanese bubbles that burst in the 80s and 90s.

Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media Lynn Parramore 2010

Fackler breezily suggests a consensus on this point among economists:

Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media Lynn Parramore 2010

Memo to Fackler: If you look closely at the history of the Japanese economy, it provides precisely the opposite illustration.

Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media Lynn Parramore 2010

My colleague Marshall Auerback provides some facts that Fackler-the-Feckless would do well to master.

Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media Lynn Parramore 2010