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[Afghankush]

Check out this Korea Times article. It has to be a low in journalism.
If it can be called that. It is like they gave an elementary school student
a crayon and asked him to scribble something on his desk.

'Super' Earth reported to exist

The existence of the earth�s siblings would be fresh to people.

There are planets very similar to Earth, including the new one
10 times bigger in size. The planet is called �Super Earth.�

Some have continents and oceans, too, as seen on Earth. There
is also an extremely dried one like Mars.

The other one which belongs to ocean planet is fully covered in
the water of ocean and is called Gliese 581C. No continents are
found in the middle of the water. The planet was discovered by
Michel Mayor and it revolves a very small fixed star with the other
two. It is 20 light years away and located in Libra.

Until March 2009, Gliese 518c was the smallest planet outside the
solar system. However, it was still super earth since it was five
times bigger than the earth. The wind of the planet would be the
same as the one of the earth since it has white clouds up in its
blue sky.

The weather of 518c is perfect as its sky is always blue. There is
also no need of weather forecast since the sun is always in the same
spot.

If the above writer got paid for that piece of crap. I'm sure my cat could
also make a pretty good income submitting articles for this paper. They
would have to supply a cat box under the desk though.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2010/09/182_73107.html

[IlIlNine]

Pot. Black.

[DorkothyParker]

I agree, this piece of writing is atrocious. I would say this falls just below the level of writing in my HS newspaper. However, I think it would be on-par with my Middle School's publication.

This gives me confidence to do a bit of freelance work.

" The wind of the planet would be the
same as the one of the earth since it has white clouds up in its
blue sky."

Wait, what color is the sky again?

"The weather of 518c is perfect as its sky is always blue."

Oh, right. Thanks.

[Koreadays]

It's hard to find good help these days

[cdninkorea]

Are terrible articles like these published in the hard copy as well?

BTW, if you want more, check out these recent blog posts on Dokdo Is
Ours:
http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2010/09/korea-times-youre-shitting-me-right.html
http://dokdoisours.blogspot.com/2010/08/meet-korea-times-copy-editor-and-korea.html

[nukeday]

[balzor]

[hogwonguy1979]

all you got to know is the kt has been rerunning articles from weekly world news

remember the "aliens in africa" article? think it was mentioned here

[Globutron]

It's not even true. There is no evidence whatsoever that there is even *any* water on that planet... Let alone the colour of its skies and existence of clouds.

The only true part is the nickname - given to all planets around the same size.

[Jane]