Until a few months ago, the only thing I knew about Current TV is that it is home to infoMania, the half-hour satirical news program that gives us Sarah Haskins' Target: Women. I didn't even know the cable network was backed by Al Gore. Of course this was before Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained by North Korea, after being discovered along the Chinese border in March.
An undated file photo of Lee and Ling
Yesterday the women were sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp — a harsher punishment than anyone imagined — on charges of "hostile acts" and entering North Korea illegally.
Early stories say that Ling and Lee were reporting on North Korean refugees, while journalist Lisa Ling, Laura's sister, insists that the two were working on a story about North Korean women being trafficked into China. Of course, at this point, squabbling over their intended reportage seems superfluous.
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