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. That of course was heavily publicized in the US, where the S. Korean episode was kept quiet here.
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If somethig like this is possible how can anybody have the slightest pretese that we have a free press?
Personally I have no doubt that the main stream media is controlled. What trully amazes me is that it can be done so well at a global scale. It is easy to understand how they do in an autocracy, but how do they do it (and who are "they"?) in democracies?