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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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 Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject: Sports commentator fired for truthful reporting. |
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Korean netizens, at their finest. Now if they could ony turn their attention towards social activism, pollution...
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Shin Mun-seon, 48, a commentator specialized in football affiliated with the Seoul Broadcasting Station experienced the most humiliating event in his 20-year career during the 2006 World Cup. He was recalled back to Korea by his office in the middle of the tournament.
Things began to go wrong on June 24 when he was broadcasting the third match of Group G between Korea and Switzerland from Hanover. In the 32nd minute of the second half, when Korea was a point behind Switzerland, Xavier Margairaz, a Swiss midfielder passed the ball to his colleague on his right. The ball was deflected, however, by a Korean defender, Lee Ho, and was directed to Alexander Frei who was dashing forward and the ball was tipped into the goal in the next few seconds.
Although the linesman raised his flag, the referee Horacio Elizondo (Argentinean) ignored it and approved the goal, igniting the flame of the �offside controversy.�
Commentator Shin argued, �The Korean players stopped their play after watching the linesman�s action and then rushed towards the referee to complain after the goal was approved. Judging the situation coolly from a commentator�s point of view, it was not an offside. I just said what I saw and thought.�
Three days later, on July 27, he received a phone call from his broadcasting station. They told him that given the circumstances in which he was being criticized by the public as a traitor, they couldn�t entrust their microphone in his hands anymore.
�I pointed out that the overall judgment by the referee of the match was biased, but it was not an offside in that specific situation. However, the Internet users cited that single phrase to accuse me as a traitor.�
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Jarome_Turner
Joined: 10 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds about par for the course. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Lunacy. |
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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| Did English commentators believe Rooney's red card was justified? |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| Alias wrote: |
| Did English commentators believe Rooney's red card was justified? |
Read the article again. You missed the point. Or, are suggesting that English commentators all said that Rooney didn't deserve a red card because they were afraid of being fired if they has said he did indeed deserve it? |
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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:37 am Post subject: |
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that's outright pathetic! i think i should start selling the national enquirer here and start selling it as the truth.  |
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FUBAR
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: The Y.C.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Korean netizens suck. Funny how a country that is so governed by confucianism and agism allows teenagers and university students to influence so much. |
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inspector gadget
Joined: 11 Apr 2003
Location: jeollanam-do in the boonies
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Korean stupidity at its best.
The guy should not have been let go because of that. In fact he should be applauded for his honesty.
But korean logic seems to be that if you say anything negative about your country you are a traitor. Kind of the same ideaology as Kim Jung Il and friends employ to the north. Makes you wonder    |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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This happens in 2006!!!!
Koreans are total babies when it comes to admitting something negative about their country. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Weren't Koreans pooh poohing the poor sportsmanship of that Italian team that fired that one Korean soccer player after Korea beat Italy or something in 2002? |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Ahn Jung Hwan? Milan (I think) revoked his contract after he scored against Italy. Hard to say which country has biigger tantrums. |
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bigverne
Joined: 12 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| Did English commentators believe Rooney's red card was justified? |
Yes, some of them did, after it became clear that Rooney stamped on the players balls. |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| the eye wrote: |
| Ahn Jung Hwan? Milan (I think) revoked his contract after he scored against Italy. Hard to say which country has biigger tantrums. |
It was Perugia |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:35 am Post subject: |
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Just imagine how many news veterens there would be in America if newscasters started telling the unvarnished truth.
Um, about zero.
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
Just imagine how many news veterens there would be in America if newscasters started telling the unvarnished truth.
Um, about zero.
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What was his name... right after 9/11 on his show he commented you couldn't technically call the 9/11 terrorists "cowards". That's kind of the default government response "cowardly attack". Okay sure if you build a pipe bomb and set it off. But when you fly a plane into a building, you're not technically a coward. You're a whole lotta other stuff, but not a coward.
Anyway, the guy's show was canceled.
Bill Maher or something. I'm too tired to google.
But yes. |
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