{"id":5741,"date":"2011-12-08T06:18:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2011-12-08T06:18:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T13:18:15","slug":"how-north-koreans-and-cubans-read-the-state-sponsored-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/12\/08\/how-north-koreans-and-cubans-read-the-state-sponsored-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"How North Koreans (and Cubans) read the state-sponsored newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the excellent blog <a href=\"http:\/\/askakorean.blogspot.com\/\">Ask a Korean!<\/a>, a very familiar account of how readers <a href=\"http:\/\/askakorean.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/ask-korean-news-journalism-in-north.html\">adjust to propaganda<\/a> in order to eke out the truth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take, for example, the war in Iraq. When the war broke out, North Korean newspapers would report:  &#8220;Iraqi army is bravely battling against America&#8217;s imperial army, downing two fighter jets and five missiles.&#8221; With this report, North Korean people would think:  &#8220;Ah, there is a war in Iraq. There would have been a lot of fighter jets, and they only got two. They have no chance &#8212; America would win pretty soon.&#8221; And in fact, the reports on the exploits of the Iraqi military would decrease over time, and then completely disappear from Rodong Shinmun. Then the people would think:  &#8220;Iraq is losing the war.&#8221; Some time later, upon seeing the reports that say &#8220;Iraqi patriots are bombing the American military base in Baghdad,&#8221; North Korean people would think:  &#8220;So Iraq is now under American rule.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=349\">why are there newspapers in north korea?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the excellent blog Ask a Korean!, a very familiar account of how readers adjust to propaganda in order to eke out the truth: Take, for example, the war in Iraq. When the war broke out, North Korean newspapers would report: &#8220;Iraqi army is bravely battling against America&#8217;s imperial army, downing two fighter jets and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}