Friday, December 16, 2005

Mea Culpas: The real cure for any bias we have?

One is telling the truth, the other lies, but nobody corrects themselves.

Victory for the Korean journalism? The storybook of Dr. Hwang's research scandal seem to have come near to its final chapter. But the Korean journalism is dead.

The Korean journalism, ignoring the mirror reflections of themselves, agonizes over the nation's "hero-making" mentality , criticizing this awefully odd national sentiment we have but which others from out of town seem to never understand to the heart and soul. At the center of most of this unique boosterism, either pro- or anti-what-so-ever, lies the very questionable ethics of Korean "professional" journalism. Hit and run, stir and apology, the name of the game they are supposed to play. Or is it all indicating they're in the transitional phase from pseudo-journalism to the "real" one, if real is any proper word to modify them. It's all right that they don't have such a mentality as we have, but one thing I can say for sure is they DO have this strangely distorted tendency to slant the news to the one extreme, left or right, liberal or conservative.

As the battles they waged are closing now, who are the winners, with all of us left to be losers, deeply wounded in both body and soul?

*** After all, the stem cell paper published in the journal Science has turned out to be fabricated, but this is a fact, though miserable, but the question of the truth still remains to bother us, which is by whom and why...

1 Comments:

At 7:14 AM, Blogger Hastle said...

"There is no excuse, my friends, for breaking my heart, breaking my heart again. This is where our journey ends...you're breaking my heart again~~~"

sung by MICHAEL LERNS TO ROCK

 

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