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ABC to Air Sawyer on North Korea Friday Night; She Touted 'Happiest Children in World'
Newsbusters ^ | December 8, 2006 | Brent Baker

Posted on 12/08/2006 8:53:25 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

At 9pm EST/PST (8pm CST/MST) on Friday night (Dec. 8), ABC will air a special edition of Primetime, “North Korea: Inside the Shadows” which will feature Diane Sawyer recounting what she found in that communist nation during a trip there back in October. If her hour-long program matches what aired in October, be prepared for a lot of North Korea officials bashing President Bush and for Sawyer to trumpet “happy” kids.

On the October 19 World News, Sawyer proved little more than a conveyor belt for the repressive communist regime's propaganda. Talking to a North Korean Army General, she relayed how “he said to us, 'make it clear to everyone in the United States, if there is another nuclear test, the person responsible is George Bush,' because he said, 'the Bush administration is backing North Korea into a corner with its pressures and its sanctions.'" In a second segment, Sawyer was taken to a school which she favorably described as “a world away from the unruly individualism of any American school." She gushed: “Ask them about their country, and they can't say enough." A teenage girl declared, in English: “We are the happiest children in the world.” Sawyer ended her piece with video of her and the class singing "Do-Re-Mi" from the Sound of Music. Far from being embarrassed by Sawyer's obsequious approach, anchor Charles Gibson proposed: "A fascinating glimpse of North Korea."

Video clip of Sawyer's segment with the school children (1:09): Real (1.9 MB) or Windows Media (2.7 MB), plus MP3 audio (340 KB)

My October 20 NewsBusters item, “Sawyer Relays NK Propaganda Blaming Bush & Touting 'Happiest Children in the World,'” provided a full transcripts of Sawyer's pieces with the General and the kids and noted how Sawyer's sycophantic segments were reminiscent of Bob Woodruff's reports from North Korea back in June of 2005 as documented in the June 10, 2005 MRC CyberAlert article, “ABC: North Koreans Hate Americans, Offer Great Music/Art for Kids.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: abcnews; dianesawyer; enemedia; korea; nkorea; northkorea; sawyer
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To: pandoraou812

Agreed


41 posted on 12/08/2006 9:55:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
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To: SevenofNine

Great link! Thanks!


42 posted on 12/08/2006 9:56:25 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: SevenofNine
"Rack YOU TUBE rack this JET

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiq643nQZj0"

Wow they (videographers) are lucky that they escaped Chia's wrath and made it out of there alive.

43 posted on 12/08/2006 9:59:22 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus; Jet Jaguar; All

Yeah big time they are so lucky

I remember when this special came on and my mom told me NOW honey now I realize you call him Chia Pet

he is wantbe ganstra rapper you know what she is right after seeing Team America Chia Pet want be gangstra rapper run with Puff Daddy


44 posted on 12/08/2006 10:01:29 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Diane Sawyer and her old media pals have no idea just how good they have it in this country; and,

they have no clue as to how miserable THEY would be if their dreams of converting America into a Utopian collectivist paradise were ever realized.

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45 posted on 12/08/2006 10:02:17 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Diane was probably only shown the school for the children of the elite.The Teen who proclaimed them to be "the happiest children in the world" was likely that General's own daughter.


46 posted on 12/08/2006 10:09:10 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell
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To: razorback-bert

Rush hour in the Worker's Paradise.


47 posted on 12/08/2006 10:10:35 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Anyone have a email addy for diane ? she needs to be told what a moron she is. Wonder if she saw people starving and eating dirt there ?


48 posted on 12/08/2006 10:15:30 PM PST by sonic109
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To: berdie

If Fisher is ever caught, he should do the 2 weeks community service he deserves.


49 posted on 12/08/2006 10:38:03 PM PST by o-n-money
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To: operation clinton cleanup

The MSM lives in a different world than you or I.


50 posted on 12/08/2006 10:53:04 PM PST by bpjam (Don't Blame Me. I Voted GOP.)
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To: martin_fierro; nuconvert
The likes of Diane Sawyer and Leslie Stahl do not have any frame of mind to properly evaluate things happening outside Manhattan, let alone N. Korea.

Diane should work for Vogue or Cosmopolitan, not hardcore journalism.

51 posted on 12/08/2006 11:01:07 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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Propagandist for the Enemy -- didnt that carry a stiff prison sentence during WW2 ???
52 posted on 12/08/2006 11:09:17 PM PST by wodinoneeye
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Conspiracy to commit Stupidity or willful mouthpiece of leftist tyranny ????


53 posted on 12/08/2006 11:09:43 PM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: Jet Jaguar
More proof that there isn't a dysfunctional communist country that the mainstream media won't eagerly find a way to praise. ABC has to be sophisticated enough to realize that they are just broadcasting North Korean propaganda. They don't mind looking like uncritical dolts as long as it serves a leftist cause. My thought is that since Iraq is finished, the next point of conflict might be North Korea so the MSM will now feature many stories about how North Korea only has "peaceful intentions," etc.

I was amazed that CNN did a documentary on North Korea last year that showed how bleak things were there (people dropping dead in the streets from starvation). I don't know how CNN allowed a little truth to get through.

54 posted on 12/09/2006 2:26:24 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Where have all the puppies gone?

Long time passing

where the kitties gone

long time ago

where have all the critters

prepared in woks every one

When will they ever learn,

When will they evvvvver learn!

55 posted on 12/09/2006 4:46:33 AM PST by Cheapskate ( You got your pitchfork and I got my gun, somthin's got to give !)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Diane Sawyer, the 21st Century Walter Duranty.


56 posted on 12/09/2006 4:58:44 AM PST by 6SJ7
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To: Jet Jaguar

57 posted on 12/09/2006 6:48:35 AM PST by razorback-bert (I met Bill Clinton once but he didn't really talk , he was hitting on my wife)
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To: razorback-bert

I actually spent a month in North Korea back in 1996. I was just 21, and at the time was working on a merchant ship carrying grain as part of the BS foreign relief effort the US was carrying out. The little I saw of the countryside was horrible, and it has to have gotten worse in the intervening years. Very little animal life, and even the soil was barren and washed out in most places. The people were unfriendly and scared to death of us. When we went on Liberty, we were escorted by the tallest soldiers they could find (about 5'8"), and constantly had machine guns pointed at us every time we looked out the window. As I recall, every time anyone was allowed off the ship, something happened that required that they be escorted back at gunpoint.
The Captain offended every single official with style, referring to Pyongyang city as "Ping Pong City," comparing the downtown area to a set on the Flintstones movie, and lighting napkins on fire on his dinner plate whenever the power went out (about every 10 minutes) at the Seaman's Club.


58 posted on 12/09/2006 7:55:14 AM PST by capt.P (Hold Fast! Strong Hand Uppermost!)
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To: Cheapskate

Good to see ya Cheaps!


59 posted on 12/09/2006 5:11:43 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: EagleUSA

Good Grief!

What did Diane EXPECT them to say when even the most down-trodden, IOW MOST of the people in N.Korea will ONLY
answer "Beloved Leader says it is a beautiful day" or words
to that effect, when asked how they are, or any question
for that matter!


60 posted on 12/10/2006 12:08:05 AM PST by sangfroid10
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