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Stan Rogers
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Airborne9
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Is it me, or did that article seem like it was cut off half way through?
Anyway, this was a better article aboput the Korean media from Groove a few months ago. Thought it was pretty interesting, well put together.
http://groovekorea.com/article/korea%E2%80%99s-media-malaise |
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atwood
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:09 pm Post subject: Re: Garbage Journalists |
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| http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/671342.html |
The article says the Korean media need guidelines for disaster reporting. I guess they're not very optimistic about Korea's new emphasis on safety. |
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atwood
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I think much in that article is pretty well known. I also think it's doubtful news reporting could have affected the rescue efforts for the Sewol passengers.
There seems to be a lot of blaming the messenger here. Is it really the media's fault that the government reports were incorrect or that the government lied? And how critical can the media be if they have the possibility of going to jail hanging over their heads?
And the solution is typically Korean: We need to study more, we need to talk about it more.
They need a truly independent press and that's not happening in Korea in the near future. |
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joelove
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| How many "serious issues" do media create anyway, not just in Korea but everywhere ? Seems they gain profit by creating issues in people's minds, scaremongering some call it. |
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Sister Ray
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| atwood wrote: |
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They need a truly independent press and that's not happening in Korea in the near future. |
Is the Tatsuya Kato case getting any coverage in Korea?
It is getting pretty widespread coverage in Japan and doing a great job at enhancing Korea's reputation as a vindictive political backwater.
If you are not familiar with the case, Mr Kato is being prosecuted for libel for an article written about President Park and the Sewol sinking. Pretty shameful.
Reporters without Borders link:
http://en.rsf.org/coree-du-sud-seoul-based-japanese-reporter-08-09-2014,46914.html |
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Airborne9
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
I think much in that article is pretty well known. I also think it's doubtful news reporting could have affected the rescue efforts for the Sewol passengers.
There seems to be a lot of blaming the messenger here. Is it really the media's fault that the government reports were incorrect or that the government lied? And how critical can the media be if they have the possibility of going to jail hanging over their heads?
And the solution is typically Korean: We need to study more, we need to talk about it more.
They need a truly independent press and that's not happening in Korea in the near future. |
That was pretty much the point of the Groove article, no? The point about the Sewol, wasn't that 'They could have saved more" but rather that the media just blindly reported what the Govt said as fact , without trying to get another source or check it properly. The article talks mostly about how the media, blindly accepts the Govts side or is 'paid off' through advertisement, so it doesn't criticize Companies or other organisations. Not a unique problem to Korea, but one probably more widespread than other OECD countries.
I have listened to a lot of people around or online complain about the Korean Media and how it reports things and how corrupt it is, with out giving actual facts. At least in the Groove article it has incidents and insiders from the Korean media that talk about the problems in the system. |
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atwood
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| Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Airborne9 wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
I think much in that article is pretty well known. I also think it's doubtful news reporting could have affected the rescue efforts for the Sewol passengers.
There seems to be a lot of blaming the messenger here. Is it really the media's fault that the government reports were incorrect or that the government lied? And how critical can the media be if they have the possibility of going to jail hanging over their heads?
And the solution is typically Korean: We need to study more, we need to talk about it more.
They need a truly independent press and that's not happening in Korea in the near future. |
That was pretty much the point of the Groove article, no? The point about the Sewol, wasn't that 'They could have saved more" but rather that the media just blindly reported what the Govt said as fact , without trying to get another source or check it properly. The article talks mostly about how the media, blindly accepts the Govts side or is 'paid off' through advertisement, so it doesn't criticize Companies or other organisations. Not a unique problem to Korea, but one probably more widespread than other OECD countries.
I have listened to a lot of people around or online complain about the Korean Media and how it reports things and how corrupt it is, with out giving actual facts. At least in the Groove article it has incidents and insiders from the Korean media that talk about the problems in the system. |
That was not the "solution" given in the article. Regarding the Sewol, that the media could have helped facilitate the rescue by criticizing efforts is certainly one of the article's main points.
The people to talk to are the people at the advertising firms, the ones that give out the white envelopes and the free products to make sure they get coverage in the newspapers. You ever wonder why so many stories read like PR releases? That's because they are PR releases. |
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