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Posted by Jeff (Guest) - Friday, September 29 2006, 6:04:11 (CEST)
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I was listening to NPR news today when they had a story about technology in South Korea (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6158302).

Steve Inskeep was interviewing a guy in South Korea and he made this asinine statement which I very much objected to.

His baseless matter-of-fact approach was to generalize about the relationship between Businessmen and Government Officials in South Korea (that is, he said "...What role has the government played?", followed by "We are talking about a comparatively small country here with a comparitively small number of business tycoons who tend to be quite closely connected to the governement who can work with it. Is there anything about that model that Americans can really learn from and copy given that it's just a very different country here?) which sort of implies that in the United States, this isn't the case?!

Steve Inskeep, you are just as bad as FoxNews and the other bullshit media when you make sweeping generalizations about the relationship between business and government in another country, yet completely ignore the obvious truth in this country.

- Jeffrey J. Atto
Royal Oak, MI



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