Monday, August 11, 2008

THE MAD COW DESEASE AND KOREAN MEDIA:

[The Chosun Ilbo, June 27 2008] More Allegations Against ‘PD Diary’ Surface

[The Chosun Ilbo, June 27 2008] '60 Minutes' and 'PD Diary'

[The Chosun Ilbo, June 26 2008] The Truth About ‘PD Diary’

[The Chosun Ilbo, June 26 2008] 'PD Diary' Ignored Translator’s Warnings

The translator of the MBC current affairs program “PD Diary,” which is charged with stirring up unfounded fears about the safety of U.S. beef, has testified that staff ignored her opinion and deliberately described downer cows as a risk of causing variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. “PD Diary” aired a program on mad cow disease on April 29 which stoked a Korea-wide panic about the safety of American beef.

[The Chosun Ilbo, June 18 2008] ‘PD Diary’ in Grudging Report of Mad Cow Finding

[The Chosun Ilbo, June 18 2008] Gov’t to File Charges Against MBC Over Mad Cow Claims

The Ministry for Agriculture, Food, Forestry and Fisheries on Tuesday said it will file civil and criminal charges against the MBC current affairs program “PD Diary” for allegedly exaggerating the risk of mad cow disease from U.S. beef and slandering the government delegation who negotiated the import deal with the U.S.

[The Chosun Ilbo, June 18 2008] Broadcaster Ignores Truth About CJD Death

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control officially announced on its homepage on Thursday that test results showed the young American woman reported by the MBC current affairs program "PD Diary" as having died from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of "mad cow disease", did not die from that illness at all.

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