Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV
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Re: Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV
#2Maybe it was a Deep fake video?
Re: Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV
#3There are better articles about this news than this over-editorialized axe-grinding blog post. For instance, this one about the official's reappearance: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/world/asia/north-korean-p... (and the original NY Times report was pretty careful with its words about his disappearance: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/north-korea-en...).
Re: Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV
#4Maybe it was a Deep fake video?
no. we are lied to about north korea every day. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_North_Kore... it’s western propaganda and lying defectors that feed us false information. there’s no need for a deep fake. he’s just not dead.
Re: Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV
#5Maybe it was a Deep fake video?
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Re: Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV
#6There are better articles about this news than this over-editorialized axe-grinding blog post. For instance, this one about the official's reappearance: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/world/asia/north-korean-p... (and the original NY Times report was pretty careful with its words about his disappearance: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/north-korea-en... ).
The submitted article is about how western corporate media handled a story about North Korea, not about the North Korean story itself. That NYTimes article is about the North Korean story, not western media's treatment of that story.
Re: Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV
#7There are better articles about this news than this over-editorialized axe-grinding blog post. For instance, this one about the official's reappearance: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/world/asia/north-korean-p... (and the original NY Times report was pretty careful with its words about his disappearance: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/north-korea-en... ).
The submitted article is about how western corporate media handled a story about North Korea, not about the North Korean story itself. That NYTimes article is about the North Korean story, not western media's treatment of that story.
AFAIK, HN hasn't has any posts about the disappearance or reappearance. We should probably have one, rather than this.
This particular article is just loud axe grinding and baseless complaining. For instance, it labels the original Bloomberg report "fake news" and a "false story," when it was in fact pretty careful with its words and spent a significant amount of prominent space casting doubt on the report. You can read it yourself here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-30/north-kor....
This blog post is not so much about "how western corporate media handled a story about North Korea" but how Ben Norton of thegrayzone.com feels about the Western media and how he wants us to feel about it too.
Re: Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV
#8Maybe it was a Deep fake video?
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North Korea kills dissidents all the time. We were wrong on this one, but there were plenty others we weren't wrong on. It's hard to be right when NK controls all media; we have to make guesses to get through their bullshit.
NK does not want peace FYI, and they are quite clear about it. They returned a US prisoner back to us recently, and he had been tortured to the point of being braindead.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The submitted article is about how western corporate media handled a story about North Korea, not about the North Korean story itself. That NYTimes article is about the North Korean story, not western media's treatment of that story.
AFAIK, HN hasn't has any posts about the disappearance or reappearance. We should probably have one, rather than this. This particular article is just loud axe grinding and baseless complaining. For instance, it labels the original Bloomberg report "fake news" and a "false story," when it was in fact pretty careful with its words and spent a significant amount of prominent space casting doubt on the report . You can…
> "North Korea Executed Envoy Over Trump-Kim Summit, Chosun Reports"
That Bloomberg headline is itself egregious. Who is Chosun? That Chosun Ilbo is a right wing propaganda tabloid with a reputation for making shit up should have been mentioned in that headline. 'Headlines that seem plausible with details hinting at fabrication in the article' is a bad formula and deserves to be criticized.
In fact, Chosun Ilbo's reputation should have prevented the story from being republished by western media at all.
Re: Journalists claim North Korean official was “purged”, then he shows up on TV
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
AFAIK, HN hasn't has any posts about the disappearance or reappearance. We should probably have one, rather than this. This particular article is just loud axe grinding and baseless complaining. For instance, it labels the original Bloomberg report "fake news" and a "false story," when it was in fact pretty careful with its words and spent a significant amount of prominent space casting doubt on the report . You can…
> "North Korea Executed Envoy Over Trump-Kim Summit, Chosun Reports" That Bloomberg headline is itself egregious. Who is Chosun? That Chosun Ilbo is a right wing propaganda tabloid with a reputation for making shit up should have been mentioned in that headline. 'Headlines that seem plausible with details hinting at fabrication in the article' is a bad formula and deserves to be criticized. In fact, Chosun Ilbo's rep…
> 'Headlines that seem plausible with details hinting at fabrication in the article' is a bad formula and deserves to be criticized.
Readers need to read more than headlines, and newspapers shouldn't censor things as if they don't.
> In fact, Chosun Ilbo's reputation should have prevented the story from being republished by western media at all.
No, that's just your opinion, which other people are free to disagree with without being wrong. For instance, I find it perfectly acceptable that the story was initially published with ample reliability disclaimers, then later corrected when new information surfaced.