KPFA News Director Mark Mericle sings U.S. imperialist tune on Korea. Twice!

by Aaron Aarons (kpfa2010 [at] aarons.fastmail.net)

Thu, Nov 25, 2010 12:23AM

Mark Mericle, in reciting the news headlines at noon and at 4 pm yesterday, could have been reading U.S. government handouts regarding Korea. He was probably reading Associated Press copy, which is essentially the same thing.

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Here are the excerpts regarding Korea from the KPFA news headlines at Noon and 4 PM today. For reference, the original full program downloads are at the following URL's:
http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20101124-Wed1200.mp3 (Korea segment starts at 1:22.)
http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20101124-Wed1600.mp3 (Korea segment starts at 4:53.)
(Start offsets are in minutes:seconds.)

I hope to post transcripts of these excerpts shortly in the comments section of this page.

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§Here's the 4 PM segment.

by Aaron Aarons

Thu, Nov 25, 2010 12:23AM

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