Here's a question for you to ponder in connection with the announcement yesterday in Washington about America's upcoming dealings with North Korea:
Which of the following facts do you consider more important:
1. The news that there will soon be a meeting between President Trump and the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was delivered to the media on the White House driveway after dark by a South Korean, and the reporters were cold; or
2. North Korea says it has suspended testing both nuclear weapons and missiles pending that meeting?
If you are the AP, your choice is easy. You pick item 1. In fact, in the article about the announcement, the AP does not even mention the cessation of nuclear/missile testing by the NK's. The AP article makes it sound like President Trump is meeting with Kim on a whim. The article does not mention that for the last year, the White House has said that negotiations with the North Koreans would only take place once the NK's stop their testing programs for both nukes and missiles. The North Koreans had refused to even consider such a condition for negotiations, but yesterday we got the news that Kim had backed down and was now accepting President Trump's announced conditions. For the AP, this is not even news worthy of mention.
I don't know if this is an intentional choice by the AP, in other words FAKE NEWS, or if the reporters who wrote this piece are so ignorant about the subject that they somehow missed these facts. If it's the former, the AP should be ashamed of its work. If it's the latter, the AP should be ashamed of its work. That's an easy choice to make; the AP should be ashamed.
Which of the following facts do you consider more important:
1. The news that there will soon be a meeting between President Trump and the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was delivered to the media on the White House driveway after dark by a South Korean, and the reporters were cold; or
2. North Korea says it has suspended testing both nuclear weapons and missiles pending that meeting?
If you are the AP, your choice is easy. You pick item 1. In fact, in the article about the announcement, the AP does not even mention the cessation of nuclear/missile testing by the NK's. The AP article makes it sound like President Trump is meeting with Kim on a whim. The article does not mention that for the last year, the White House has said that negotiations with the North Koreans would only take place once the NK's stop their testing programs for both nukes and missiles. The North Koreans had refused to even consider such a condition for negotiations, but yesterday we got the news that Kim had backed down and was now accepting President Trump's announced conditions. For the AP, this is not even news worthy of mention.
I don't know if this is an intentional choice by the AP, in other words FAKE NEWS, or if the reporters who wrote this piece are so ignorant about the subject that they somehow missed these facts. If it's the former, the AP should be ashamed of its work. If it's the latter, the AP should be ashamed of its work. That's an easy choice to make; the AP should be ashamed.
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