Lies and Propaganda

Between broadcasts of patriotic songs, biographies of their leader, and entreaties to support the national campaign of songun, people in North Korea might have been told by the state-controlled media that their struggle with the American oppressors has reached a new apex.

We don't know, exactly, how the news will be conveyed of Pyongyang's dismissal of the six-way talks. In all likelihood it will be spun as an unfortunate reaction to the stepped-up aggression of the U.S. administration. Their nuclear capability is described as a heroic last line of defense against bloodthirsty GIs chasing children down the streets with bayonets.

We might hope the people in North Korea, beneath their fear, suspect that they are subject to a totalitarian veil of lies. And we might hope when Americans read the news they don't take it for granted that they enjoy a much closer realtionship with the truth than people with only one channel, literally and politically.

Now back it up, hard Lefties: I'm not saying that our media IS the truth. But I am saying we enjoy much more liberty than people who live in a place like North Korea. Tell me, is that really a radical, partisan statement?