This morning readers devoured a gripping dispatch from Laura Ling and Euna Lee (pictured, via), the two American journalists recently freed from North Korean prison.
The Morning Media Menu also pondered the essay and AgencySpy editor Matt Van Hoven was worried that the journalists’ work would be lost in all the media attention: “The journalists were careful to emphasize the reason that they were near North Korea at all … was to report on sex trafficking and North Korean defectors.’The story of these two is so compelling, but I think it’s sort of over,” [Van Hoven] said. ‘And there is this whole other big issue that I hope doesn’t get lost.'”
Last month, reports surfaced that Ling was shopping a book proposal about the ordeal with her sister. According to reports, the new book will provide a “larger context” to the North Korean imprisonment, perhaps ensuring that the sex trafficking reporting will not be abandoned. (Via FishbowlNY)