Sly Like A Fox

I just read that Fox News is now the third most watched cable channel behind only USA Network and TNT, and anyone who saw the Fox report from North Korea understands why the news channel has the number three slot and deserves higher.

Accompanying the New York Philharmonic on it's "goodwill" musical excursion to Pyongyang, reporter, Greg Palkot showed film of the capital and some surrounding areas that was a scene straight out of 1984, and even better, it was in color! .

The bus caravan they rode in was new and looked like those Airstream trailers, but Palkot noted that they were frequently the only vehicles on the road, and the actual sight was startling - wide avenues with no cars (there are about 23,000 of them in a country of twenty-three million).

We were also treated to a library computer room in which all the computers were "mostly internally linked, but the Fox correspondent pointed out that people were starting to realize that a different world exists beyond their borders. Things are being smuggled in, and they get television from South Korea and China.

Palkot then said one particular thing that I found to be very interesting: that "capitalist-minded" individuals were finding their own way. Isn't that amazing that in the most hard line communist country on Earth, it's individual initiative that may be the way to a better life, and that in America and elsewhere, people are pushing for direct government control as a solution to virtually everything?

You should have seen the gleaming gold colored statue that was the focus at the end of Palkot's report. It showed that all that glitters is not gold... and sometimes it's surreal.

The piece on North Korea appeared on a segment of Special Report with Brit Hume if you'd like to catch the replay, and I'd like to mention again that there is no better news program on television than Special Report.