Obama on the current New Yorker
The current cover of the New Yorker depicts Senator Obama draped in bin-Ladenesque robes, bumping fists with his wife, an afro-centric Michelle, M-16 strapped across her back. In the fireplace burns an American flag, the image of what a ridiculously large percentage of Americans believe will happen should Obama win the White House.
According to CNN, the internet plays a large roll in helping to generate these rumors, which feed on existing fears and ignorance. With this in mind, it helps shed light on how Koreans whole-heartedly accepted rumors over the dangers of US beef, rumors that helped spark nationwide protests.
Those protests received widespread criticism, dismissing the protesters as gullible, uneducated, or plain stupid. Yet the same forces that convince Americans that Obama is a Muslim are to blame in Korea. Irresponsible media and a flourishing trade in idiocy over the internet.
From this side of the Pacific, what the New Yorker cover shows is that, on both sides there are plenty of people willing to believe the wildest things. Korea and the US are not that different after all.
Filed under: America, Opinion, Politics, media | Tagged: America, beef, media, Obama
[...] Jeffrey Weiss wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe current cover of the New Yorker depicts Senator Obama draped in bin-Ladenesque robes, bumping fists with his wife, an afro-centric Michelle, M-16 strapped across her back. In the fireplace burns an American flag, the image of what a … [...]