Disgraceful Media FAIL on Korea Reporting, Distorting North Korea & South Korea/US bias Part 2

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Major U.S. media news shows do a horrible job covering North Korea, by what they report and what they don't report.

"In a commentary run by its state-run Korean Central News Agency, the North expressed regret over any civilian lives that may have been lost as a result of the shelling, which it says was aimed only at military bases. It also blamed the South for the deaths."
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/12/116_77089.html
"If that is true, it is very regrettable," KCNA said of the civilian deaths. "But the enemy should be held responsible for the incident as it took such inhuman action as creating 'a human shield' by deploying civilians around artillery positions and inside military facilities." http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AQ0O720101127

The claim that the two civilian contractors were working on a military base is supported by Kim Chi-joong, the brother of one of the civilians, "They were killed while engaging in construction work inside the military base. On top of industrial disaster benefits, the government should recognize them as those who sacrificed their lives for the country and others." http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/12/117_77317.html

Other Sources: http://bit.ly/ePO8ix
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George Orwell writing about how things really work in our world WITHOUT a "Big Brother" censoring things:
"The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary.
Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news — things which on their own merits would get the big headlines-being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that 'it wouldn't do' to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was 'not done' to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals."
Excerpt from George Orwell,The Freedom of the Press, Orwell's Proposed Preface to 'Animal Farm' This preface was not included when the book was first published, a copy was only found years later.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452284244/ref=nosim/representativ-20
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Info about the South Korean Warship Cheonan
http://japanfocus.org/-Tanaka-Sakai/3361

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[SoaringTrumpet]

And you expect us to believe that NK honestly poses the question, "but what were those civilians doing at a military base", when that query is answered in the onscreen quote you cite! They were "engaging in construction work". Instead of recognizing that point in your observations, you act as if NK has credibility in their claim that SK was "deploying civilians" to military sights, implying that they wanted to instigate a war through these innocents' deaths.

[representativepress]

@SoaringTrumpet You miss the point, SK & media both acted like NK intentionally killed civilians rather than targeting a military base. South Korea president DEVIOUSLY insisted, "Launching military strikes against civilians is an inhumane crime that is even banned during wartime." MSNBC talked about them being at a "fishing village!" South Korea president mischaracterized & EXPLOITED the civilian deaths, instigating war by pretending North Korea set out to intentionally hit civilians.

[SoaringTrumpet]

You lost me at about 2:45 into your video, which was fair and informative up until that point. Following your ongoing thread with user "oolong2", I'm concerned your own biases have made you too sympathetic, or gullible, towards North Korea's statement. I mean, when you claim that NK shows regret over killing civilians, just by virtue of a government released statement, you could at least display some of the skepticism you have towards the US's (or any government's) propaganda.

[representativepress]

MSNBC gave unequal treatment, that's the point I'm making: issue is "SHOWING ANY SIGNS of regret. " The point isn't the sincerity of any statement. In normal discourse, whether we are talking about a state or a person, when they make a statement about something being very regrettable, it would be dishonest to maintain that isn't "A SIGN OF" regret. And THAT's the point. Shifting that point into a debate over if they are "REALLY regretful" is strange, a double standard and besides the point.

[sn4kech4rmer]

Notice how there is almost the SAME amount of dislikes in every video made by this guy? Wow, I just subscribed and ended up realising how much people dont want him to reveal the truth. What is wrong with knowing exactly what is happening in the world. Seriously, I dont give a shit about Israel, Iraq, Saoudi Arabia or any other country in the middle east. Why should we spend blood and money for another country? The mainstream media doesn't want us to know the truth. Anyways +1 and TY for the vid!

[aceflyer89]

@PinkishiPhone We don't, haven't, and probably won't live in a more peaceful World. It's just the way this planet is. Don't like it ... there's a couple of other planets we could try to avoid democracy >.>

[MichaelParentiOrg]

The Face of Imperialism, 2011;

Dr Michael Parenti adds shocking new evidence to the litany of injustices visited upon victims of U.S. imperialism: expropriation of their communal wealth and natural resources, complete privatization and deregulation of their economies, loss of local markets, deterioration of their living standards, a growing debt burden, and the bloodstained suppression of their democratic movements.

Kind Regards, MP friends

[marcus8374]

You never finished part 3.

[Gramra]

@representativepress So, I appreciate that you're willing to call out the MSM and put forth your argument, but you're not actually *advocating* for the North Korean regime, are you?

[LolitaSupreme]

It's refreshing to see another perspective on this whole matter. Keep making good videos.

[AllOutofBubbleGumm]

This is informative and all. An eye opener to the biased media, but I just have to say this.

YOU SOUND LIKE ANDY DICK. NO JOKE.

[TheRantingCabbie]

All this could have been avoided if the Cairo Declaration was adhered to over 60 years ago. That line at the 38th parallel was actually drawn in 1945 when the Eulsa Treaty finally came to an end and Japan returned to what they were in 1894. After that, yeah, so much for the entire peninsula becoming one free democratic state.