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The Associated Press and North Korea’s Sordid Secret Propaganda Pact

February 7, 2016 by wpfixit

The Associated Press: Korea’s Global Propaganda arm By Nate Thayer February 7, 2016 The Associated Press opened their news bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea four years ago last month with much self-trumpeted pomp that brought the entire AP executive business side of the company hierarchy from their New York headquarters as invited guests of the […]

Filed Under: AP North Korea, Associated Press, Associated Press North Korea, North Korean Missiles, North Korean Nuclear Program, North Korean Propaganda, Propoganda Tagged With: AP Propaganda, Associated Press, Associated Press North Korea, Free Press, North Korea nuclear weapons

Associated Press Stays the Propaganda Course in Mundane North Korea Reporting

June 12, 2015 by wpfixit

Associated Press Stays the Propaganda Course in Mundane North Korea Reporting Fully staffed Pyongyang news bureau won’t report major fire  Media competition does from Seoul, Tokyo, Washington By Nate Thayer June 12, 2015 On Thursday, June 11, there was a major fire at the iconic Koryo hotel in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The story […]

Filed Under: AP North Korea, Associated Press, Associated Press North Korea, Journalistic Ethics, North Korea AP, North Korea Associated Press, North Korean Propaganda Tagged With: AP North Korea, AP Propaganda

American spy chief secret meeting with head of North Korean cyber warfare

January 9, 2015 by wpfixit

Kim Yong Chol: The man behind North Korea’s Cyber warfare. U.S. top spy James Clapper has “extraordinarily unfriendly” secret meeting with North Korean chief cyber warrior shortly before Sony attack By Nate Thayer January 9, 2015 Ten days before the attack on the Sony movie depicting the assassination of Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s head […]

Filed Under: Afghanistan, Alex Tigchelaar, Animal Abuse, Anonymous, AP North Korea, Arthur Torsone, Associated Press, Associated Press North Korea, Blog Nate Thayer, James Clapper, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-un, Kim Yong Chol, Matthew Miller North Korea, Nate Thayer, North Korea, North Korea arms trafficking, North Korea crime, North Korea Internet, North Korea sanctions, North Korea Spy, North Korean covert operations, U.S. North Korea, U.S. North Korea policy Tagged With: James Clapper North Korea, Kim Yong Chol, Nate Thayer, Reconnaissance General Bureau, U.S. North Korea

Peeking into backrooms of big media defending bad reporting: AP & Washington Examiner

December 31, 2014 by wpfixit

Elite Media defend PR shilling for one another  By Nate Thayer December 31, 2014 Yesterday, I was forwarded an email sent to my editor from the Washington Examiner newspaper requesting comment on a story we wrote on December 24 called “The Associated Press in North Korea: A Potemkin News Bureau?” The problem was the Examiner had […]

Filed Under: AP North Korea, Associated Press, Big Media, Media, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, NKNews.org, Washington Examiner Tagged With: AP North Korea, AP Propaganda, Associated Press, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Washington Examiner

AP secret agreement with propaganda arm of North Korean regime

December 26, 2014 by wpfixit

The Associated Press in North Korea: A Potemkin news bureau? Confidential AP agreement with North Korea gives Pyongyang control over news stories (This story on the Associated Press making a secret written deal with North Korea agreeing to terms which, according to senior AP journalists involved in North Korea news coverage, have resulted in the […]

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The AP in North Korea: A Potemkin news bureau? Secret AP deal gives Pyongyang control over news

December 24, 2014 by wpfixit

By Nate Thayer NK News December 24, 2014 According to 14 current and former AP reporters involved in news produced out of the North Korean bureau, as well as the detailed draft agreement signed by AP top management with North Korea, the Pyongyang bureau is the only one in the world where the AP allows: […]

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Is the Associated Press collaborating with North Korea? AP & Pyongyang agree to separate truth from news

November 21, 2014 by wpfixit

Very disturbing questions raised by secret agreement made between the AP and the North Korean Ministry of Propaganda and Agitation Is the Associated Press a willing collaborator with Pyongyang? AP top management refuses to answer that question. Fortunately, the excellent and embarrassed reporters of the AP are more than willing to do their job to bring the unfiltered […]

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Associated Press Pyongyang “bureau” silenced on top world story from North Korea

November 9, 2014 by wpfixit

The Associated Press should close it’s “bureau” in North Korea as an embarrassment to the principles of the Free Press By Nate Thayer November 11, 2014 It did not go unnoticed that the Associated Press had exactly no reporting today from its Pyongyang “bureau” on the release of two American prisoners held in North Korea, […]

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AP reports N. Korea “Ice Bucket Challenge”: silent on repression of disabled

September 1, 2014 by wpfixit

AP reports “Ice Bucket Challenge” in North Korea; doesn’t on NK repression of disabled people Viral water dunking campaign for charity staged in Pyongyang by American rappers By Nate Thayer Sept 1, 2014 The Associated Press should be ashamed of themselves for being a willing collaborator in disseminating the state propaganda of North Korea, the world’s […]

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