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Hmmm…. Telling a world conference of newspaper owners that there should be tighter controls on newspapers? Korea Telecom’s overseas lines must have lit up about, oh, 2 seconds after that session ended. I can imagine the conversations already:
“Yeah, Fred? Stop the presses! I want a front-page editorial now, and make it extra blistering! 60-point headlines!”
The Chosun had a good response to Roh’s naivety:
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....00031.html
Roh must have stopped thinking before he spoke. Of course that happened along time ago.
Insurgents in Iraq-I see they finaly found the Koreans.
Roh has terminal foot-in-mouth disease.
Of all places, a world newspaper conference, with no less than Pinch Sulzberger in attandance. Good one, Dr. No.
Another set of idiotic remarks by who else.
To be fair, Roh does remove his foot from his mouth to change feet once in awhile.
I just don’t see the wisdom in encouraging from the press exactly the sort of behaviour he criticizes them for exhibiting….
OH SO TYPICAL CHOSUN, or, “WHAT THE CHOSUN DOESN’T TELL YOU”
…is that the GNP voted in favor of the legislation WAN’s acting president took shots at.
I can see taking issue with the law, I can even see calling it unfair, but to suggest or allow people to assume that it is Roh’s doing or anything of the kind is just plain typical Chosun disinformtion through ommission.
Okay, that is pretty disingenous of them….
WAN?
World Association of Ninnies?
“If newspapers slanted to the values or interests of a particular controlling group dominate the market, the interests of the socially weak have no ground to stand on.”
Strike one for the Hani.
“If newspapers express distrust and hatred, society may be plunged into confrontation and conflict.”
Strike two for the Hani (and OhMyPuke, but it ain’t a newspaper anyway).
Not that the Chosun is any better, but if the GNP-voted law is that bad, why’nt Tovarichtch No repel it? To muzzle *his* opponents. maybe? I reckon there’s way too many o’ ‘em…
To be completely nonpartisan about it, the GNP and Uri Party both suck.
To be completely nonpartisan about it, the GNP and Uri Party both suck.
. . . and Koreans think that “Han” is a feeling that begs description.
The Korean media is good at leaving out certain things, but then I notice more and more the same from the US.
The suckiness of things that suck is the kibun that gives Westerners their han. Or something.
On a different note, take a look at this article:
South Korea to Build World’s Largest Tidal Power Plant
Link: http://www.renewableenergyacce.....y?id=31016
” … Not only will the project generate power, but VA Tech Hydro said the existing water quality of the Sihwa Lake will be significantly improved. Due to industrial facilities taking process water out of the lake and releasing waste water into it, the zone has over and over again been the subject matter of discussions during the past years. Regularly flushing the Sihwa Lake with sea water was identified as an acceptable method of remediation, according to the company. It was obvious that such an investment would only be cost-effective, if the operator simultaneously gained profit out of the energy production of a tidal power plant …”
Quite a simplistic way of assessing the project’s environmental impacts. I am skeptical that this tidal wave project would resolve the underlying problem of industrial pollution and contribute to the Korean quest for (cleaner) alternative energy resource.
Thanks for the link Young Yoo–yeah I doubt flushing Sihwa Bay (it’s not a “lake,” just a bay blocked by a seawall) like a giant toilet is going to help the environment, just send the pollution out to sea to become the world’s problem.
i want a gravatar please! How can i get one?
there must have been a foot-in-mouth policy memo circulated this month. dr. no’s comments were almost as good as the official who told everyone that a japanese official said the US didn’t trust korea to be discrete with political discussions. hehe… enough to wax pathetic about the state of politics here these days.
Dr. No? James Bond?
Newspapers have to make money. They have to pay reporters, editors, ink manufacturers and paper factories. So, they run advertisements(which can be known lies, especially oriental herbal aprodisiacs ads). Newspapers are basically mouthpieces for these companies that want to lie to people.
In this regard, newspapers are similar to travelling medicine merchants or prostitutes. They have to “hook” people in and then they sell advertisements.
Newspapers are private ventures under market forces. However, Dr.No does not understand market economy. He is drenched with communist/dictatorship ideas, so he likes to manipulate market and sell only “his” papers. Maybe he is afraid of “freedom of the press”.
Kick out commies from the administration and set the country to the right direction. If he does his job right, then he has no reason to be afraid.
Baduk, you certainly have a way with words….
“In this regard, newspapers are similar to travelling medicine merchants or prostitutes.”
Have you seen the movie, “the insider”? It is about the media business. Very often money decides what to report and how to report.
Money talks, through media.