In N. Korea, a Determinedly Rosy View of Satellite Launch

Washington Post ^

[maccaca]

Kim Jong Il has expressed "great satisfaction" that North Korea succeeded Sunday in launching a satellite into orbit. The North Korean leader's satisfaction, as state news media explained it Monday, was in no way diminished by a worldwide expert consensus, based on tracking data, that the satellite did not go into orbit, but instead plopped into the Pacific, where it apparently sank. "It is a striking demonstration," Kim was quoted as saying, "that our scientists and technicians developed both the multistage carrier rocket and the satellite 100 percent with their own wisdom and technology and accurately put the satellite into orbit at one go." As the satellite story suggests, facts as told by state news media inside Kim's North Korea often have an inverse relationship to facts as understood everywhere else. State propaganda, instead of merely shading the truth, tends to invent an alternative universe.

[Cementjungle]

facts as told by state news media inside Kim's North Korea often have an inverse relationship to facts as understood everywhere else

Sounds like our media.

[JoeProBono]

[Zeppo]

I'm not sure about which came first:

Did the Commies learn this "tell a baldfaced lie with a straight face" schtick from the Democrats, or did the Democrats learn it from the Commies?*

*Yes, it is a trick question - there's not a dime's worth of difference between a lying Commie and a lying Democrat...