No foreign leader has enjoyed coverage as good as North Korea\u2019s Kim Yo Jong since Vogue profiled Asma al-Assad, first lady of Syria, back in 2011. (That was right before Assad\u2019s regime killed tens of thousands of people and used chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war.) A sampling: Reuters: \u201cNorth Korea has emerged as the early favorite to grab one of the Winter Olympics\u2019 most important medals: the diplomatic gold.\u201d CNN: \u201cKim Jong Un\u2019s sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics!\u201d Business Insider: \u201cFrom her \u201cside-eye\u201d of US Vice President Mike Pence to hints at Korean unification, Kim has stolen the spotlight at the Winter Olympics.\u201d Washington Post: \u201cThe \u2018Ivanka Trump of North Korea\u2019 captivates people in the South at the Olympics.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All that is necessary to get the coastal media’s blessing is to\u00a0 be the opposite of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Without whom this\u00a0rapprochement<\/em>, real or fabricated, would not be happening in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American legacy media trip over, beclown selves with their coverage of the Nadia Comaneci of this year’s winter olympics… …North Korea: No foreign leader has enjoyed coverage as good as North Korea\u2019s Kim Yo Jong since Vogue profiled Asma al-Assad, first lady of Syria, back in 2011. (That was right before Assad\u2019s regime killed tens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65931,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65930\/revisions\/65931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}