it's crazy how many permutations of speculative articles the media has written when in reality they simply don't know anything

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      "I just want to know if they really hold up, or if I was just riding the hype wave with everybody else when Witcher 3 came out," she told our sources. "Like, I remember thinking 'wait, we're believing so much hype from a company that essentially only has the Witcher series under their belt. Looking back, I'm not sure the series was ever good enough on the whole to justify that excitement, but I have to know for sure."

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Fed to dogs? Executed? Turns out ranking North Korean Official actually just stepped out for five minutes to take a shit".

    • HarryLime [any]
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      4 years ago

      Nah, she and Jack Ma are hanging out, smoking good loud together, living their best lives, and they turned their phones off.

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    4 years ago

    A week or two ago I saw an article about how Kim Jong Un is prepping her to be his replacement.

    Western media just makes shit up, because no one in the west knows anything about North Korea.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      4 years ago

      they said that back when he "died"/"was missing and thought to be dead." There was a bunch of "she's even MORE ruthless than the other kims"

    • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      AP News’s reliance on ‘an analyst at Seoul’s Korea Institute for National Unification’ for their intel

      Not to mention the "some say" and "others believe" bullshit. We couldn't get away with that lazy shit in journalism school. Provide a credible source or don't print it. Fuck the AP.

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    kim jong un's sister has been seen using the steam account of kim jong un making people speculate that kim jong is either dead or they share the account

  • Norm_Chumpsky [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Remember when the entire MSM was 100% convinced that Kim Jung Un was dead? Do these gullible dipshits ever learn that maybe that psycho right wing Korean “news sources” might be making shit up?

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    I've come to the conclusion that these are written with the specific target of being read by the people they're about and sowing seeds of doubt. They want her to read it and they want to sow seeds of conflict internally.

    They take events like a released list of people given various powers and then take the opportunity to haphazardly guess at who might harbor some discontent over not being selected, then they write about them in order to try and reinforce their discontent. This kind of thing is is pushed directly from intelligence and the media agencies put it out in exchange for access to the true stories that are given to them as Stockwell said.

    It's basically just guesswork. Try and guess at who might be unhappy and then try and enflame that seed of unhappiness. There's always unhappy people when various selections and events occur that would involve power struggles or aspirations behind the scenes. It makes sense as loose thread to try and pull on it.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think it is the opposite. I'm pretty sure NK understand perfectly well they don't know wtf they are talking about and don't pay attention. But it is because this is not read by the audience but by people who have absolutely 0 contact with the target and anyone who can outright disprove them, they have a free pass to make up anything they want.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        I think that's an incidental side-benefit.

        The most common use of media by the western propaganda machine is to try and influence people INSIDE target countries, in order to try and dismantle that country. Since they have no means to create media inside it though and very little information their capabilities are degraded to this haphazard approach that involves guesswork and hope. They would prefer to create a Radio Free NorthKorea but obviously can't.

        In the long-long term it also forms the basis of trying to flip target individuals to the side of liberalism. They think she might one day be powerful, if they can lib her now then they can lib the country later.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I think that’s an incidental side-benefit.

          It's the reason why they CAN say all that stuff. If it was easy to discredit they wouldn't say it because they'd just lose credibility.

          The most common use of media by the western propaganda machine is to try and influence people INSIDE target countries, in order to try and dismantle that country.

          These are not sold in the DPRK. Even if they were they're too stupid to convince someone who lives there, and most people wouldn't even be able to read them since I don't think most North Koreans have a good level of English understanding.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            I know. But the CIA knows that those in the upper government are reading international media.

  • Kissmydadonthelips [any,undecided]
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    4 years ago

    I heard they made her eat her own doo doo and then make little doo doo houses outta....out of her own doo doo ....then they smashed her doo doo village and made her clean the doo doo off their boots

    boots...

    boots....

    boot

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's really funny how quickly yet confidently they just make shit up whenever anything is ever so slightly out of the "normal" or at least what they consider to be normal.