The Google tags for landmarks including prison camps began to fill with user reviews, ranging from apparently factual accounts of life in the camps to faux-glowing reviews.

WSJ: Google Maps Details Streets, Prison Camps in North Korea

Meanwhile, though they are richer in factual detail and thoroughly serious in tone, it is far from clear that the news accounts serve their audience better.

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It takes the form of fictionalized accounts (such as Fox's wildly popular drama, "24") and factual documentaries (like programs aired this weekend on Fox News and CNN about, respectively, the operations of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in America and the virulent hatred towards the West being incubated by Islamists in places like the United Kingdom).

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