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1. #Names for the splits in a story about my uncle game series#
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The popular expat blog Beijing Cream described Choi Seongho as a "master Internet troll" last year.Ĭould Western media really have been duped by a satirical tweet? I sent this theory to David Bandurski, a project researcher at Hong Kong University's China Media Project. The Sina Weibo Choi Seongho has been featured a number of times in the Chinese press, but - and here's the important part - many observers believe it is satirical. Pyongyang Choi Seongho appears to be run by (or at least inspired by) the same person who runs a similar unverified account on Sina Weibo which is better known (it has over 2 million followers). There's something a little strange about the Pyongyang Choi Seongho account, however, and it's not just the background cartoon of Kim Jong-un flipping the bird. They have almost 40,000 followers, but are not verified. The Tencent account is held by someone with the user name Pyongyang Choi Seongho, who claims to be an editor at a North Korean newspaper currently studying in Beijing.

You can see the original Wen Wei Po story here (the tweet is included as an image) and the original tweet here. Writing on his blog, Powell describes how he noticed that the dogs detail of the Wen Wei Po story appears to be sourced to a "tweet" on the Tencent Weibo microblogging platform. Trevor Powell, an employee at an investment research firm who grew up in Taiwan, went back to check the Wen Wei Po story, and noticed something unusual. This story proves even less trustworthy than most, however. Reports of North Korean excesses are always worth being extra-skeptical of - there are few Western reporters in the country and most of the rumors that filter out come through South Korean intelligence sources, who very much have their own axe to grind. No official in Seoul has come out to lend credence to the report, according to The New York Times' Lede Blog. In studies of the different credibility ratings of Hong Kong newspapers, Wen Wei Po consistently ranks near the bottom. 12 article in Wen Wei Po, a Hong Kong-based newspaper supportive of the Chinese government. For one thing, the Strait Times sourced their news to a Dec. Dean works for the Red Sox station and his wife and children root for the Yanks and listen to the Yankee station in town.Very quickly, some people began to realize that there was something a little off about this story. Lull has a nephew named for the Red Sox star Ted Williams - Theodore Samuel William Lull.įamilies are divided here.

#Names for the splits in a story about my uncle game tv#

''I'd rather see the Yankees on TV lose, than the Red Sox win. ''You want to hear a quote?'' said a Red Sox fan, Bob Lull of Middletown. In an age of caution, there is something refreshing about the blind, pig-headed hatred between Red Sox and Yankee fans. Dattco is sending 8 buses from Connecticut Friday, 12 Saturday and 17 Sunday.

#Names for the splits in a story about my uncle game series#

The Peter Pan Cafe in West Hartford keeps two televisions at the bar, one for the Sox, one for the Yanks.Īetna Insurance in Hartford alternates its annual Yankees-Red Sox baseball trip, going to New York one year, Boston the next.Įven with the Yanks slumping, Connecticut bus companies like Dattco are reporting record sales for the series at Yankee Stadium.

Gingerella, sports director of WNLC in New London, was accused of being a Yankee sympathizer, he has taken a firm stand, doing the Yankee results first one broadcast, the Red Sox first the next. ''I was there twice, that's it.''Īt the slightest trace of favoritism, diehard fans are ready to shout, ''J'accuse.'' Ever since Mr. Tom DiFiore, a Hartford sixth-grade teacher who has photos of his beloved Yankees hanging in his classroom, was asked if he had ever been to Fenway Park in Boston. Though it is hard to say exactly where the state splits, it is violently split, and with a big Boston-New York series starting at Yankee Stadium Thursday, Connecticut is again at war with itself.Īs is the case in all wars, truth is often the first casualty. If there were a state mathematics problem, it would be long division. If Connecticut were a television mini-series, it would be subtitled ''A State Divided.'' If there were a state psychosis, it would be schizophrenia. There are no easy answers when it comes to Connecticut. ''Somewhere around New Haven might be a good bet.'' ''Good luck on finding that elusive line,'' Sam Gingerella of New London said. Meriden? ''Yeah,'' Uncle Louis said, ''that's basically true.''