hurray!

A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality

Jodi Hilton for The New York Times

Max Anderson, right, with Harvard classmates and their M.B.A. oaths saying they won’t advance their “own narrow ambitions.”

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bait and switch

Hmmmm, another case in point with title tickling.
Click on the little title on wsj.com and you get:


a story about Korean immigrants looking for citizenship.

But what about the readers who don't click for the article?

N Korea spin

For a few years now, I considered myself a fairly avid online reader of news (esp. on the Korean pennisula) and had been pretty satisfied with it—taking it all with a grain of salt. But today I must say that the tilt of the titles of my two main sources threw me for a badas$ brain loop Wednesday morning.

from the New York Times:

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from the Wall Street Journal:

unfortunately, I just tried to find the article and got hijacked to a subscription window
to view the article now, so you'll have to trust me that this is an actual screen shot.
Nice touch though with the "N." whether it was intentional or not, it reminded me that
Korea was just Korea before the N. & S. and Corea before that!


inflammatory vs. what I thought journalism is all about...

I can only assume that most do not have time to read every article let alone more than 2 sources and it's the title that sticks. I suppose the war mongers have got their tentacles widespread...

I do hope to see a reunified Korea and I don't think that I'm alone.


ps. here's a third

from Yahoo news:


thanks NiCi for the yahoo link and inspiring me to "put it out there"..

thanks goodness for level headedness

in reportage that is...

from Huffington Post:


"Iran and North Korea appear to be seeking small nuclear arsenals in order to deter potential adversaries from launching an attack upon them -- by threatening them with unacceptable damage in retaliation.

Neither North Korea nor Iran could hope to defeat its most powerful potential adversary -- the United States -- in any kind of direct military confrontation. They cannot repel an actual attack upon them. They cannot shoot American planes and missiles out of the sky. Indeed, no state can."

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funny, informative and bit long but well worth it (at least for me)


thanks AzAs! for reintroducing me to the power of Google and leading me to take a second look at HuPo.