Comments on: The Truth About “On the Town with the US Military” http://rokdrop.com/2007/10/26/the-truth-about-on-the-town-with-the-us-military/ Serving on the Forgotten Frontier Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:53:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: GI Korea http://rokdrop.com/2007/10/26/the-truth-about-on-the-town-with-the-us-military/#comment-86859 GI Korea Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:44:42 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/10/26/the-truth-about-on-the-town-with-the-us-military/#comment-86859 Get the book is quite good for anyone who really follows Korean affairs. When I first read the guys article as well I was sure is was greatly exagerrated as well. It was the same thing I thought when I first read Beauchamp's articles. It is simply a writer writing something to meet what the publisher wants and expects. Publishing the truth would mean it does not get published. Writers earn paychecks and get recognized for what gets published thus they write what fits the publishers agenda. Get the book is quite good for anyone who really follows Korean affairs. When I first read the guys article as well I was sure is was greatly exagerrated as well. It was the same thing I thought when I first read Beauchamp’s articles.

It is simply a writer writing something to meet what the publisher wants and expects. Publishing the truth would mean it does not get published. Writers earn paychecks and get recognized for what gets published thus they write what fits the publishers agenda.

]]> By: usinkorea http://rokdrop.com/2007/10/26/the-truth-about-on-the-town-with-the-us-military/#comment-86787 usinkorea Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:33:45 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/10/26/the-truth-about-on-the-town-with-the-us-military/#comment-86787 I think that movie might have been entitled Shattered Glass...pretty good if not thrilling movie. Can't wait to see the Beauchamps sequel... I think that movie might have been entitled Shattered Glass…pretty good if not thrilling movie. Can’t wait to see the Beauchamps sequel…

]]> By: usinkorea http://rokdrop.com/2007/10/26/the-truth-about-on-the-town-with-the-us-military/#comment-86786 usinkorea Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:32:21 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/10/26/the-truth-about-on-the-town-with-the-us-military/#comment-86786 I'll have to read that book. I remember coming across that article a year or so into Korea back in the late 1990s and thinking it sounded like dramatic fiction. Later on, when I went back looking for it again a couple of years ago to put on the anti-USFK/US Newsletter site, I had seen the Stephan Glass-New Republic movie (Broken Glass) that reminded me of this USFK hit-piece. It was just too over the top to believe. A reporter would have had to cream his pants to run into something that perfect to report --- just rolling waves - wave after wave - of perfect stereotypical bad GI Joe stuff coming to him... http://usinkorea.org/issues/kmag/index.html That is the review I did of the article. I think you got one part wrong. At least it is different from what I found... Rolling Stone is where the "reporter" was working at the time, but they turned it down and the reporter wasn't there much longer after that ---- I think he spun it as he left RS rather than the other way around.....but he wasn't around after that piece was turned down - from what I remember... The "reporter" then found a home for it at Noam Chompsky's place ZMag. I think if you read some of the guy's earlier work, it also reads EXACTLY like the kind of stuff Stephan Glass and now this new guy (Scott Thompson Beauchamps) were writing --- stuff that sounds like some high school later-teen with some (immature) writing talent sat down and imagined what would make a great fictional "news" essay for some English class assignment. Sometimes when something seems to good to be true ---- it probably isn't...... I’ll have to read that book.

I remember coming across that article a year or so into Korea back in the late 1990s and thinking it sounded like dramatic fiction.

Later on, when I went back looking for it again a couple of years ago to put on the anti-USFK/US Newsletter site, I had seen the Stephan Glass-New Republic movie (Broken Glass) that reminded me of this USFK hit-piece. It was just too over the top to believe. A reporter would have had to cream his pants to run into something that perfect to report — just rolling waves - wave after wave - of perfect stereotypical bad GI Joe stuff coming to him…

http://usinkorea.org/issues/kmag/index.html

That is the review I did of the article.

I think you got one part wrong. At least it is different from what I found…

Rolling Stone is where the “reporter” was working at the time, but they turned it down and the reporter wasn’t there much longer after that —- I think he spun it as he left RS rather than the other way around…..but he wasn’t around after that piece was turned down - from what I remember…

The “reporter” then found a home for it at Noam Chompsky’s place ZMag.

I think if you read some of the guy’s earlier work, it also reads EXACTLY like the kind of stuff Stephan Glass and now this new guy (Scott Thompson Beauchamps) were writing — stuff that sounds like some high school later-teen with some (immature) writing talent sat down and imagined what would make a great fictional “news” essay for some English class assignment.

Sometimes when something seems to good to be true —- it probably isn’t……

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