The Hack Olympics Continetti, Matthew
Commentary (New York),
03/2018, Letnik:
145, Številka:
3
Magazine Article
Continetti cites that a few days before the Winter Olympics, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un announced that his sister, Kim Yo Jong, would travel to South Korea as part of his official delegation. ...Never in the 65 years since the Korean War has a member of the ruling family visited South Korea, which made Kim's journey a historic and newsworthy event. If only the coverage of Kim, a member of the North Korean Politburo and a minister of propaganda, had treated her with the appropriate moral and intellectual seriousness and detachment. What we got instead was a combination of celebrity puffery and partisan cheap shots at the Trump administration. The politics of North and South Korea, and the equally complex and intricate relations between these two countries and China, Japan, Russia, and the US, were reduced to just another amateur sport. Ignorant and supercilious reporters transposed the cliches of the electoral horse race, complete with winners, losers, buzz, and sick burns, to nuclear brinkmanship. Major news organizations could not have done Kim's job any better for her.
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