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September 2, 2005
Columns
This week provides an example of a good column, by one of the people who reviewed the recently released papers regarding the Japan-South Korea normalization treaty of 1965, a pretty darn bad one that is totally disconnected from reality (and from any concept of structure) and an utterly hilarious one (you have to keep reading until the end).
These are probably fairly typical. The JoongAng editorial writers usually just fart out something that fits the space, but most of the guests are more interesting. But on balance I'm glad I'm reading them. Even the bad ones can be instructive.
Posted by b-applegate at September 2, 2005 1:53 AM
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The third editorial explains our involvement in Iraq! It's our fault - for not giving GWB enough 'warm fuzzies'.
Posted by: Cherie at September 2, 2005 12:02 PM
Is the last line of the third editorial a subtle bite at the President? Or just the author's honest admission of cluelessness?
It's funnier the second way.
Scott
Posted by: Scott Stephenson at September 3, 2005 2:23 AM
Sorry Scott, but it's definitely the first. Our paper is openly hostile to this administration. Like, San Francisco Chronicle vs. Bush hostile. So much so that the president has tried (with some success) to put legal restrictions on the JoongAng, Dong-a and Chosun (the big three papers), which all don't like him. Of course the legislation just refers to a supposedly hypothetical "if, you know, just IF three papers happen to take more than X percent of the market, they get this and that restrictions." :P
Posted by: Ben Applegate at September 6, 2005 6:44 AM