Posted on 12/08/2006 8:53:25 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
She is a graduate of the "Walter Duranty School of Journalism."
I actually didn't think it was that bad. Some of her questions were really stupid, and it annoyed me how she only went 20 miles out of Pyong Ying and assumed that everyone was living the same lifestyle in North Korea, but she didn't go "They are superior to us in every way!" Plus I learned a lot of interesting things.
'Happiest Children in World'
LOL! Maybe we should petition Fox to show Team AmericaOf course we wouldn't be able to hear any of it.
The media is only too happy to report on the Potemkin Village set up for them instead of looking behind the set up for the truth. Blissfully ignorant is the term, I believe.
Why not? Right before we invaded Iraq she went there and filmed Saddam's birthday celebrations... the children just LOVED it!
That is, from their own national news media--when it comes to North Korea.
Here in Japan we have had EXCELLENT documentaries on the REAL state of North Korea, running for almost 15 years now. And I mean REALLY excellent documentaries. On Fuji-TV. On Asahi-TV. On NNN-TV. Even NHK-TV at times. Some of the more provocative were risky, underground hidden video/camera films taken nowhere near the staged, Diane Sawyer-type North Korean Workers Party Office Potemkin City Hollywood Set tours--carefully designed and executed to fool the foreigners.
Japanese TV on the other hand, without any illusions nor in my opinion liberal slant, shows the REAL North Korea--there is at least one good story a week, sometimes even more.
As a result, nearly 120 million Japanese from all walks of life are quite informed on what this country, North Korea, is REALLY about and how they treat children in reality, not just in selected "sets" in privileged and closed Pyongyang.
The American people, in contrast, are pathetically fed this ABS-CBS-NBC-CNN crap which is full of lies. As a result, vast vast segments of 250 million American People are ignorant and stupid when it comes to what evil North Korea and Kim Jong il is truly all about.
I cannot say this any clearer. If there are any representatives of the US National Mass Media (TV/Wire Services/Magazines) reading this on FR, and you subscribe to the philosophy of truth in journalism, and you in any way have anything to do with this masking of the truth about the DPRK in the United States, you should be fully ashamed of yourselves. You are below my abject contempt.
Shallow and vain snob and liberalism are the recipe for "the banality of evil."
Hitler youth where happy too. I suggest Diane move permanently to North Korea and eat bark soup.
Famine-struck N Koreans 'eating children'
By Mark Nicol
Last Updated: 11:29pm BST 07/06/2003
Cannibalism is increasing in North Korea following another poor harvest and a big cut in international food aid, according to refugees who have fled the stricken country.
Aid agencies are alarmed by refugees' reports that children have been killed and corpses cut up by people desperate for food. Requests by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to be allowed access to "farmers' markets", where human meat is said to be traded, have been turned down by Pyongyang, citing "security reasons".
Anyone caught selling human meat faces execution, but in a report compiled by the North Korean Refugees Assistance Fund (NKRAF), one refugee said: "Pieces of 'special' meat are displayed on straw mats for sale. People know where they came from, but they don't talk about it."
That's because the kids are probably too weak from hunger to get unruly.
That this program was shown is, in fact, an outrage.
The USA and Japan have now warned North Korea of dire consequences if they have another atomic test. I wonder what those consequences might be? It's like that old comedy routine "I dare you to step over this line" and after about 15 meaningless "threats" the guy falls off a cliff behind him because he has retreated so far.
OH MY GOD megabarf.
Diane Sawyer fell for this? And her network abandoned their common human decency and journalistic integrity (an anachronism, I know) by broadcasting it?
What next- a visit to the "Happy Little Campers" nursery school in Darfur?
Since we took out Saddam Hussein, there now is no more horrible regime in the world than that of North Korea.
http://www.hrnk.org/TheHiddenGulag-press.pdf
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2483708,00.html
http://www.wright-house.com/right/north-korean-gulag.html
http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2004/october/28.39.html
Google Maps is another good way to see just how empty the roads are in North Korea.
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