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Lee Government Pursues Internet Restriction Proposal

» by GI Korea September 8th, 2008 at 7:16 am » Comments (5)

The IHT has an article out that explains how the Lee Myung-bak government plans to reign in the Internet smears that nearly brought down his administration during the mad cow ...more »

Dokdo & Journalistic Standards of Yonhap News

» by Kalani August 18th, 2008 at 11:53 am » Comments (21)

The following article appeared in the Yonhap News. This is NOT to bring up the Dokdo dispute, but rather the journalistic standards for selecting articles for YONHAP NEWS, the ...more »

The Humorous World of Trolls

» by Kalani August 18th, 2008 at 10:36 am » Comments (1)

Simon Barnes, "multi-award winning Chief Sports Writer", has written a humorous little piece about Trolls. It is found at Times Online. But what is humorous was the comments below the ...more »

CBS’s Lara Logan Linked to Love Triangle

» by GI Korea June 29th, 2008 at 9:19 pm » Comments (3)

It looks like CBS's Lara Logan was quite a busy woman when she wasn't busy participating in an astroturfing campaign or disseminating terrorist propaganda footage as news during her time ...more »

Missiing the Point of US Beef Protests

» by GI Korea June 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 am » Comments (0)

I read news articles like this AP story currently on the front page of Yahoo and the International Herald Tribune's Choe Sang-hun's article and I just continued to be amazed ...more »

RUN DMC and Cows Gone Wild

» by GI Korea June 19th, 2008 at 6:50 am » Comments (1)

Here is a perfect example of how the Korean media has absolutely has no shame when they twist what anyone says to include totally changing translations from English speakers to ...more »

NBC’s Tim Russert Dies of Heart Attack

» by GI Korea June 14th, 2008 at 7:46 am » Comments (1)

For those that haven't heard yet, Meet the Press host Tim Russert has passed away today at the age 58 when he had a heart attack while at work at ...more »

Fox News Employee Sues Over PTSD

» by GI Korea May 30th, 2008 at 7:00 pm » Comments (0)

PTSD is a real issue that the military has been working hard to address. However, stories like this one below show how easy it is for anyone to claim ...more »

Responding to Media Distortions from the Miami Herald & Newsweek

» by GI Korea April 18th, 2008 at 8:22 pm » Comments (0)

Small Wars Journal has two excellent postings up that show how shoddy/biased/incompetent (pick one) that US journalism has become.  The first posting is a response to an article published in ...more »

TIME Magazine’s Cover Photo Angers Veterans

» by GI Korea April 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am » Comments (1)

It is bad enough that the sacrifices of today's servicemembers are trivialized by the media but now even the sacrifices of World War II veterans is being trivialized as well: ...more »

Noah Barkin, What Delay of Summer Troop Withdrawals?

» by GI Korea April 10th, 2008 at 8:04 pm » Comments (0)

I like to highlight dishonesty in the media on this website and today I saw something on the frontpage of Yahoo that was a flat out lie.  Here is what ...more »

Dubious Poll Claims Over One Million People Have Died in Iraq

» by GI Korea January 31st, 2008 at 5:37 am » Comments (6)

UPDATE:  Just as I expected don't expect the left to call this poll a "Halliburton Poll: One million Iraqis killed in a "liberation" that they never asked ...more »
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