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It’s not easy being a journalist. Crashing barriers to entry have eroded whatever rents you once earned, and the growth of social media means you are under constant surveillance by self-appointed watch dogs. I berate the Washington Post and New York Times for repeatedly misinterpreting basic data on North Korea’s trade relations. Then Josh Stanton [...]
When Bubba Watson hit that titanic through-the-trees-hook-onto-the-green shot on the 10th during the Master’s playoff, Louis Oosthuizen must have known it was just not his day. We have taken our gentle shots at AP in a number of posts, most recently riffing off Isaac Stone Fish’s piece for FP.com and the problematic photo exhibit AP is [...]
Before shooting the wounded left from the death of a tyrant, let’s start with something positive and uplifting. Back in July we did a post on SAGE, a student-led artistic activism collective at Handong University in South Korea which produced an exhibition on the horrific conditions within the North Korean political prison camp system “Where [...]
As we mentioned in earlier posts involving an ostrich farm and an apparently doctored photo, AP has reached an agreement to open a bureau in Pyongyang. Earlier this year Seoul bureau chief Jean Lee made a trip to North Korea accompanied by photographer David Guttenfelder. The Atlantic has now published 37 of his photos. As the [...]
Telling truth from fiction is sometimes difficult on the Korean peninsula. Caveat emptor! AP: From the “with friends like these, who needs enemies department.” Having just sent out a press release touting an agreement to open a bureau in Pyongyang, AP had to withdraw an apparently doctored photo that it had sent out reputedly depicting [...]
Several weeks ago we were approached by Jean Lee of Associated Press about a story on North Korea. Lee had a chance to visit two showcase farms near Pyongyang, but was curious about how an ostrich farm “fit into the larger picture of farming in North Korea.” Um, no kidding! Ostriches are a versatile bird, [...]
