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TJ · Joined: 10 Mar 2003

Maybe I blinked but I have yet to see any mention in a Korean newspaper about the US airforce plane that crashed near Anson recently. Two US personnel were killed but are Koreans interested in that ? Of course not !!!

The fact that US personnel are killed while training to protect South Koreans apparently is not news worthy.

What a contrast with the furore over the accidental deaths of the two Korean school girls.

I think this bias stinks - and I'm not particularly enamoured of the USA.

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

I don't know about the newspapers, but I saw decent coverage of it on the SBS and KBS television news programs, so I suppose some Koreans care.

Gord · Joined: 25 Feb 2003

Cthulhu · Joined: 02 Feb 2003

Homer · Guest

TJ,

A newspaper with a bias?? No, surely not, thats just not possible. Everyone knows all newspapers are objective and fair.

Also, a newspaper that devotes more space and attention to the death of two of the citizens then to the death of two foreign service men?
Stop the press, this is shocking news.

Actualy, Gord was quite right (scary but it happens) when he talked about the initial attention the death of those two girls got in the papers.
What happened after was a press feeding frenzy based on the action sof this retired politician and other extremists who used the incincent to further their cause.
Papers want to sell TJ and sadly that event became "newsworthy".

Finally TJ, you can't compare the two incidents mate. One involves the accidental death of two teen girls who were killed by a military vehicle. It was not a usual thing to happen nor an expected one.
The one you just mentionned was the death of two pilots in a training exercise where risk is part of the job. Hence its not that unexpected. It is sad that these two pilots died but they accept risks everytime they take off. Just part of the job.
The other incident does not include this risk factor hence it was much more shocking.
You might also have mentionned that the Korea pilots or soldiers who die each year during unfortunate accidents in exercises do not make frontpage news....no that would have been too complicated and would have deflated your rant.