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Bramble
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Bramble,
Im assuming you are a copy editor at the Korea Times? |
Wrong. |
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NovaKart
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| I could understand copy editors making a mistake but an alien graveyard is really too bizarre to not question seriously and even a quick glance at the weekly world news should be enough to know that it's not serious. |
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Bramble
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| I could understand copy editors making a mistake but an alien graveyard is really too bizarre to not question seriously and even a quick glance at the weekly world news should be enough to know that it's not serious. |
I'm sure the copy editors don't determine the content of the newspaper.
I have nothing to do with the Times, but I've done that type of work before. Copy editors may see an article for 10 minutes before they have to send it to the layout artists, and then it goes into the paper regardless of what condition it's in.
Why the alien story is still on the Web site I have no idea. |
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blurgalurgalurga
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| Did it make the paper today? Anyone see it in print? |
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mc_jc
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:22 am Post subject: |
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I did- it was priceless.
This is "serious" journalism.
I should send a copy of both the one where they try to set the record straight about their coverage of foreigners and this article to a real newspaper like the New York Times to show them what type of journalism is done in Korea- simply priceless.
What makes it all the more amusing is that Koreans are reading this story and believing every word of it.
Again, simply priceless! |
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Hindsight
Joined: 02 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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In case they do remove the story, here it is:
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12-15-2009 19:20 여성 남성
Alien Graveyard Found
Extraterrestrial cemetery in Rwanda, Central Africa which is at least 500 years old, was discovered.
According to the Weekly World News, Dr. Hugo Childs, the Swiss anthropologist said, "There must be 200 bodies buried there and not a single one of them is human."
Dr. Childs and his colleagues reportedly discovered the alien graveyard on a routine survey of the Rwandan jungle.
"Soil and tissue samples indicate the bodies have been in the ground since the 1400s. We're now trying to figure out where they came from ― and what killed them," said Dr. Childs.
The creatures themselves were much taller and skinnier than humans and they stood about 7 feet tall. Their heads were larger than the average man's and they had no mouth, nose or eyes to speak of.
Dr. Childs speculated that the 200 aliens were part of a single landing party that encountered a deadly virus. Because they would have had no immunity to Earth disease, he added, something as simple as the flu could have wiped out the entire party.
He would not take reporters to the site, for fear of the bodies being disturbed. However, he promised to reveal the location once the excavation was complete. "It will change the world," Dr. Childs said.
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르완다에서 외계인 무덤 대거 발견
아프리카 르완다에서 500년 이상 된 거대한 외계인 무덤이 발견됐다.
위클리 월드 뉴스에 따르면, 스위스의 인류학자 휴고 차일드 박사는 "이 무덤에는 200명 이상의 시체가 매장돼있고 모두 인간이 아니다" 라고 주장했다.
차일드 박사와 연구팀은 르완다의 정글에서 조사를 하던 중 우연히 외계인 무덤을 발견한 것으로 보도됐다.
차일드 박사는 "발견된 무덤의 토양과 시체 샘플 등을 조사한 결과 적어도 1400년대 무렵의 무덤으로 추정된다"며 "그들이 어디서 왔는지 무엇이 그들을 죽였는 지 알아보고 있다"고 전했다.
이 무덤에서 발견된 외계인 시체는 인간보다 키가 크고 마른 상태로 신장은 약 7피트에 달하며 머리는 인간보다 평균적으로 크고 코와 입의 흔적은 없이 큰 눈만 있었다고 전해졌다.
차일드 박사는 묘지에 매장돼 있는 200명의 외계인은 지구 상륙부대의 일원이며 지구에 왔을 당시 치명적인 바이러스에 감염돼 사망했을 것으로 추정했다. 이들은 면역력이 떨어져 간단한 감기나 지구상에 있는 병들을 견디지 못한 것으로 보인다.
그는 현장이 오염될 가능성이 있다는 이유로 무덤 장소에 기자들을 들어오지 못하게 하고 있다. 하지만 차일드 박사는 이번 발굴이 종료되면 위치를 공개하겠다고 약속하면서 "이번 발견이 세상을 바꿀 것"이라고 장담했다. |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/12/113_57334.html
In Korea, truth is based on consensus. Since several websites are running the story as though it were true, ipso facto, it must be true.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Hugo+Childs+anthropologist&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Oh, and there was a photo, so it really really must be true:
http://www.disclose.tv/forum/alien-graveyard-allegedly-found-in-rwanda-t12975.html
This just in: There's a giant crack in Africa that is going to become a new ocean:
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/13333/giant-crack-in-africa/
And this:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/internet_archaeologists_find
Real newspapers don't use "Dr." for people with Ph.Ds.
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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The KT should hire Ed Anger, his commentary seems to match the KT's editorial style.
I've been a fan of the WWN since the mid 90s- The Page 5 Girl, Dear Dottie (America's Most Outspoken Advice Columnist) and Serena Saybak (America's Sexiest Psychic) were great fodder, to say nothing of Bat Boy or Abe Lincoln being a woman.
The KT should just take the plunge and become the like the WWN, it pretty much is already, minus the quality writing. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| The KT should hire Ed Anger, his commentary seems to match the KT's editorial style. |
Yes! I still have some columns lying around about how Ed Anger felt the Chinese had a plan to destroy the world by jumping up and down at the same time and throwing the earth out of orbit, or a page-long tirade against cats because they're "lazy."
Ah, a KT article about space aliens and it's still up. Christmas came early. Someone send this to Letterman!
I think I'll give the KT an anonymous tip-off about the "Egyptian Mummy that Sings Elvis Hits." |
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Moldy Rutabaga
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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I just submitted the story to Digg. It should be there now unless it's edited out: http://digg.com/offbeat/upcoming
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mc_jc
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Where's Real Reality when we need him/her... |
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Bramble
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| mc_jc wrote: |
I did- it was priceless.
This is "serious" journalism.
I should send a copy of both the one where they try to set the record straight about their coverage of foreigners and this article to a real newspaper like the New York Times to show them what type of journalism is done in Korea- simply priceless.
What makes it all the more amusing is that Koreans are reading this story and believing every word of it.
Again, simply priceless! |
You should also grant KT an interview and see if they believe your leaked military secrets. |
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blurgalurgalurga
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I used that article (and the WWW original, and an unrelated story about the Bat-boy in Harvard) with some students yesterday, and they loved it. They thought it was pretty funny and all agreed that while the local newspaper industry is a long-running and generally unfunny joke, this is really plumbing a shocking new low.
What really blows my mind is that they haven't yet withdrawn it from the website, or printed a retraction, or anything, even two days later. |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Bramble wrote: |
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I did- it was priceless.
This is "serious" journalism.
I should send a copy of both the one where they try to set the record straight about their coverage of foreigners and this article to a real newspaper like the New York Times to show them what type of journalism is done in Korea- simply priceless.
What makes it all the more amusing is that Koreans are reading this story and believing every word of it.
Again, simply priceless! |
You should also grant KT an interview and see if they believe your leaked military secrets. |
Alien Autopsy Conducted at U.S. Base. 2MB is an Alien. The K-Government is under control of Aliens, and not the fun kind that the AES hates.
Maybe we can cause a feedback in the disinformation pipeline- Convince the AES that there are Martians in Korea brainwashing the girls and cite a WWN-influenced Korea Times article. The AES then turns into a joke when it starts an anti-Alien campaign. |
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caniff
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| What really blows my mind is that they haven't yet withdrawn it from the website, or printed a retraction, or anything, even two days later. |
Impossible. Retraction = loss of face. Better to just continue printing garbage and pretend that everything is ducky. |
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mc_jc
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| You should also grant KT an interview and see if they believe your leaked military secrets. |
Funny you should mention that because I was used more than once as a source for their articles regarding US-Korean military relations.
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| Maybe we can cause a feedback in the disinformation pipeline- Convince the AES that there are Martians in Korea brainwashing the girls and cite a WWN-influenced Korea Times article. The AES then turns into a joke when it starts an anti-Alien campaign. |
Knowing how Koreans think, this actually sounds like a plausible idea, lol. |
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