Our P.R. Problems Are Solved

Anyone out there work for the U.S. Information Agency? I think I’ve solved America’s bad P.R. problem in South Korea. First, we need to take a tip from these boys to get more sympathetic TV coverage. Second, the student organizations on South Korean campuses have much to teach us about alternative printed media.

You’re kidding me–Hanchongryon propogating the North Korean party line? Why, you could knock me over with a gnat’s wing right now. I’m all for letting South Koreans read and say pretty much whatever they want, but Hanchongryon is just about as racist, violent, and conspiratorial as the Ku Klux Klan.

UPDATE: Or, we could just put the Education Department in charge of our overseas P.R. Hmmm . . . “Education.” Orwell would have loved that one. This has in fact got to be the sleaziest thing I’ve seen our government do for quite some time, although I probably wouldn’t object to us doing exactly the same thing in, let’s say, certain foreign media outlets. I understand the objections, but consider the other options, such as this, or this.