@exxp I think Dr. Koto just followed order, but later tried to do something about it (make public what happened). Then the person in charge just blamed Dr. Koto and leaked some false facts, like the 1.000.000 bribe.
@Kaarme Journalism in other countries is the same. There are good people, there are bad people. It is unfair to put it as Japanese journalism. Even in the US, journalists write whatever people pay them to write.
Journalists are trash-level of people. When it comes to being unethical and incompetent about things they do they lose only to politicians. Few good ones are not enough to fix it.