Sunday, June 20, 2010

How The Media Misreports on Venezuela, Even When Given Full Information

by Mark Weisbrot from South of the Border.
Mark Weisbrot, CEPR co-director and South of the Border co-writer, responds to Stephen Sackur’s article in The Guardian
The author deconstructs an article in the Guardian, a liberal British news source, to illustrate how capitalist media is unable or unwilling to provide any kind of reasonable coverage of government figures if they are in opposition to the capitalist system or if they criticize it.