N. Korea: Japan, U.S. plotting invasion
I saw this link on CNN that points to http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/20/us.japan/index.html. I can't remember which I was more surprised about - that North Korea even thinks that us Americans would do something that stupid (well, then there is Iraq...) or that it was even worth CNN's time to print such a crappy story. I mean really people, isn't this something you'd expect to read in the National Enquirer?
On a surface level, it's such a tabloidish, sensationalist thought that it's hard to believe CNN would even want to print such rubbish. Isn't there something more relative to the public's attention that we need to know about, like how planning for the invasion of Iraq was started even before 9/11, or what is the motivation for politicians to spend tons of money to fight poverty and get public health in other countries yet refuse to fund public health in our own country.
On a deeper level, I have to also say that I'm amazed CNN is so desperate for eyeballs that they have to print something as boring as this. I mean, is there any value to this story? It's kinda like a story stating that China is manufacturing more steel this year, or that there is new pressure for China to revalue the yuan. Yawn! Dude, these stories haven't changed in years! China isn't going to revalue their yuan just because some new group of nobodies says so. The US government has been pushing for it for years with no effect at all. So what, North Korea is paranoid. How is this any different from what's been happening for the last 20 years?
I guess in the end it's not that I really care what the leadership of North Korea thinks, nor that I'm worried about the US invading North Korea, but what I mostly feel is sadness that a news outlet like CNN that used to have a lot of prestige no longer has the resources or the wherewithal to do decent, investigative journalism anymore but has to print such crap to fill up their content with.
Ah, nostalgia. Memories of when kids were able to walk to school, water was free, engines where measured in cubic inch displacement, and CNN was a respectable outlet of journalism.
On a surface level, it's such a tabloidish, sensationalist thought that it's hard to believe CNN would even want to print such rubbish. Isn't there something more relative to the public's attention that we need to know about, like how planning for the invasion of Iraq was started even before 9/11, or what is the motivation for politicians to spend tons of money to fight poverty and get public health in other countries yet refuse to fund public health in our own country.
On a deeper level, I have to also say that I'm amazed CNN is so desperate for eyeballs that they have to print something as boring as this. I mean, is there any value to this story? It's kinda like a story stating that China is manufacturing more steel this year, or that there is new pressure for China to revalue the yuan. Yawn! Dude, these stories haven't changed in years! China isn't going to revalue their yuan just because some new group of nobodies says so. The US government has been pushing for it for years with no effect at all. So what, North Korea is paranoid. How is this any different from what's been happening for the last 20 years?
I guess in the end it's not that I really care what the leadership of North Korea thinks, nor that I'm worried about the US invading North Korea, but what I mostly feel is sadness that a news outlet like CNN that used to have a lot of prestige no longer has the resources or the wherewithal to do decent, investigative journalism anymore but has to print such crap to fill up their content with.
Ah, nostalgia. Memories of when kids were able to walk to school, water was free, engines where measured in cubic inch displacement, and CNN was a respectable outlet of journalism.
posted by Daetrin at 1:33 PM
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