by sumac | Apr 28, 2014 | Media Apologies
Panorama is the world’s oldest documentary news program, running on the BBC since 1953. To do a piece on North Korea, Panorama investigator John Sweeney wanted to get into the country. Sweeney’s persistent. Despite abundant harassment, he did two shows...
by sumac | Dec 10, 2013 | Political Apologies
Merrill Newman’s back home, so I guess it’s safe now to say that his apology sounded totally phony. Newman’s the 85-year-old Californian, a Korean War veteran, who went on a package tour in North Korea, was grabbed off the plane at the end, and...