BBC tactics in covering N Korea is criticised
Intellasia Tuesday 16th April, 2013
As tensions escalated between North Korea and the world late last month, a small group of students from the prestigious London School of Economics crossed the border into the reclusive country for what was described by organisers as a government-sanctioned ';week of sight seeing, meeting with ministers, government officials'; and academics. But among the students, the university announced in an outraged statement over the weekend, were three BBC journalists filming an undercover documentary. The BBC, the university said, ';deliberately misled'; the group to underplay the scope of the reporti...
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