Friday, March 04, 2005
LA Times Outrage Continues
Yesterday, I pointed out that the LA Times had lost all sense of right and wrong in their North Korean propaganda piece. Hugh Hewitt, despite his calls to drop the paper, continues to point us to more outrageous pieces on the same topic. Today's miscarriage is this piece in which the LA Times essentially serves as the DPRK regime's mouthpiece for transmitting conditions under which it will return to the negotiating table.
Vodkapundit brings up the specter of Eason Jordan, pointing out that Jordan once lauded the DPRK.
I think the that specter may be a little more insidious than that. Remember the initial outrage that brought Eason Jordan to the world's attention? -- His revelation of cooperation with the Hussein regime in order to continue to have reporting access inside Iraq.
One is forced to wonder if there is not a similar Faustian deal between Ms. Demick and Kim Jong Il?
As a comment, it is incomprehensible to me that even a truly misguided left-winger would want to shore up such an evil and oppressive regime like this. Are there really sufficient numbers of people in this country so out of touch with any sense of good and evil that they think this will sell papers? Are they so simplistic that they think free speech includes the right to mass murder? I shudder if it is so.
Vodkapundit brings up the specter of Eason Jordan, pointing out that Jordan once lauded the DPRK.
I think the that specter may be a little more insidious than that. Remember the initial outrage that brought Eason Jordan to the world's attention? -- His revelation of cooperation with the Hussein regime in order to continue to have reporting access inside Iraq.
One is forced to wonder if there is not a similar Faustian deal between Ms. Demick and Kim Jong Il?
As a comment, it is incomprehensible to me that even a truly misguided left-winger would want to shore up such an evil and oppressive regime like this. Are there really sufficient numbers of people in this country so out of touch with any sense of good and evil that they think this will sell papers? Are they so simplistic that they think free speech includes the right to mass murder? I shudder if it is so.
