Non-mea-culpa mea-culpa, Part II
Hugh Hewitt has contacted LA Times writer/SK bureau chief Barbara Demick about her piece on North Korea that ran last week. Hugh has spent much time in print and on-air discussing the piece and many in the blogosphere have chimed in.
Today, Hugh has posted copies of questions to Demick and their replies.
I'm in the middle of reading Blog, and as I read Demick's answers I can't help but think of Hugh's description of the Jayson Blair incident and Howell Raines' non-mea-culpa mea-culpa. This is sort of a non-acknowledgment acknowledgment.
On all the big points, it appears Demick acknowledges the evil that Kim has--and by all accounts, continues to--perpetrated against his people and neighbors. Yet nowhere does she make any acknowledgment of the disconnect between what she articulates in her responses and the original piece.
Amazing...
2 comments:
Not only are your dogs smarter---they're an awful lot more intellectually honest than anyone at the LA Times (after all, when dogs smell a pile, they at least recognize it for what it is).
MTL
Chicago
Thanks for the kind words about the pups--their mother and I are quite proud.
I can only hope though, that neither of them tell us they want to be a journalist when they grow up...
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