tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2341954168256070610.post6135886708909643883..comments2023-09-12T01:15:08.356-07:00Comments on Honduras Coup 2009: Just a side note about Voice of America spinRAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00097415587406899236noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2341954168256070610.post-85277184056916696922009-09-26T15:21:37.409-07:002009-09-26T15:21:37.409-07:00Channel 36 does not show the kind of crisis that I...Channel 36 does not show the kind of crisis that I was hearing on Radio Liberado. It's possible that this was a re-play, but there are various reasons I don't think so.<br /><br />As Drudge would say, "Developing." <br /><br />--CharlesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2341954168256070610.post-22963307706147983832009-09-26T14:44:27.364-07:002009-09-26T14:44:27.364-07:00Radio Liberado reports aerial gassing in the area ...Radio Liberado reports aerial gassing in the area of the Brazilian embassy.<br />__________________<br />RAJ asks, "Do we have a right to demand that US-sponsored media, like US-sponsored research services, get the details right?"<br /><br />We do as long as they don't have to listen. The Miami Herald carried a piece by Frances Robles that according to comments on Al Giordano's The Field trimmed statements by Zelaya to make him sound crazy and anti-Semitic, then laughed at him for the caricature created by the reporter. The New York Times and many other papers did similar things, making it pretty clear that this kind of smear tactic is centrally-originated (maybe just by reporters gossiping with one another; maybe with government encouragement). They did the same thing to discredit Bill Clinton and the same to discredit Al Gore. <br /><br />And they're completely immune to listening! They've been flayed in the pages of Columbia Journalism Review, Public Editors have been brought unwilling to the confessional, and reporters have been treated with tidal waves of letters, mostly polite, showing them how they are disserving the public. They have been publicly shamed as "mediawhores" (a terrible slander against honest sex workers everywhere). And: Nothing! It only gets worse, year by year. <br /><br />--CharlesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com