What I value most about the Free Press is that it opens our minds by questioning everything. In the same spirit, I want to question Park's story. I feel this could possibly be a bit of Malala meets Anna Delvy. Park's story is horrifying regardless of my critique and I have consummate respect for her struggle and courage. B…
What I value most about the Free Press is that it opens our minds by questioning everything. In the same spirit, I want to question Park's story. I feel this could possibly be a bit of Malala meets Anna Delvy. Park's story is horrifying regardless of my critique and I have consummate respect for her struggle and courage. But here are my questions which ring a possibility of non-authenticity: How is it that a bright and vociferous daily reader of the NYT and Washington Post who was now playing with elites, had no idea who Jeff Bezos or Amazon was? How did she move into these circles to begin with? This does not happen to just any traumatized refugee. How is it that she still has photos of her family? She and her mother clandestinely escape North Korea with a giveaway sign carrying the family photos? And, through kidnapping, rape and other horrors, they somehow hold onto them? I read a book called HitLit of all the elements that need to be added to a best seller. She too has all the elements to a hot memoir. Elites. Wealth. Refugees. The questioning of those who question Trump. Critical Race Theory. And then of course, of all people, meeting Harvey Weinstein. I was an adjunct at USC and a consultant to the nonprofit sector. There was a time a few years ago, when on campus, the Phd's to claim status only had to comment on their proximity to Malala at all the conference junkets they attended. And then there were the nonprofit execs who were at the top of the game if they could mention having attended Davos, South by Southwest, Aspen Ideas Conference and others....and then more status if they had met Malala. Park feels as if she is fitting this mode. Her story needs to fact checked and she needs to be questioned. This would be a good story for the Free Press.
I had the same feeling, Gary: Her story is a little too good to be entirely true. I really, really hope she's not pulling a hoax---I want to believe her. But Bezos? Weinstein? Met Gala? Hillary? Tina Brown? A voracious reader of ONLY the newspapers that would serve as a setup for her conclusion that "the elites are vacuous scum?"
Color me skeptical, Stephen Glass division. I hope I'm wrong, but . . .
Re: Yeonmi Park
What I value most about the Free Press is that it opens our minds by questioning everything. In the same spirit, I want to question Park's story. I feel this could possibly be a bit of Malala meets Anna Delvy. Park's story is horrifying regardless of my critique and I have consummate respect for her struggle and courage. But here are my questions which ring a possibility of non-authenticity: How is it that a bright and vociferous daily reader of the NYT and Washington Post who was now playing with elites, had no idea who Jeff Bezos or Amazon was? How did she move into these circles to begin with? This does not happen to just any traumatized refugee. How is it that she still has photos of her family? She and her mother clandestinely escape North Korea with a giveaway sign carrying the family photos? And, through kidnapping, rape and other horrors, they somehow hold onto them? I read a book called HitLit of all the elements that need to be added to a best seller. She too has all the elements to a hot memoir. Elites. Wealth. Refugees. The questioning of those who question Trump. Critical Race Theory. And then of course, of all people, meeting Harvey Weinstein. I was an adjunct at USC and a consultant to the nonprofit sector. There was a time a few years ago, when on campus, the Phd's to claim status only had to comment on their proximity to Malala at all the conference junkets they attended. And then there were the nonprofit execs who were at the top of the game if they could mention having attended Davos, South by Southwest, Aspen Ideas Conference and others....and then more status if they had met Malala. Park feels as if she is fitting this mode. Her story needs to fact checked and she needs to be questioned. This would be a good story for the Free Press.
Ooh Malala meets Ana Delvy? That’s really an interesting comment.
Your comment really made me think. So I did a google search and found a long history of inconsistencies in her stories she has told through the years.
I had the same feeling, Gary: Her story is a little too good to be entirely true. I really, really hope she's not pulling a hoax---I want to believe her. But Bezos? Weinstein? Met Gala? Hillary? Tina Brown? A voracious reader of ONLY the newspapers that would serve as a setup for her conclusion that "the elites are vacuous scum?"
Color me skeptical, Stephen Glass division. I hope I'm wrong, but . . .
Fact checking by honest brokers is always a good thing. Maybe one of the many unbiased so called journalists at NYT or WAPO can take that task on.