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US media ignore Ecuador chaos and anarchy
Published: 02 October, 2010, 03:30
Edited: 03 October, 2010, 07:35
Ecuador, Quito : Soldiers fall in in front of the Carondolet presidential palace in Quito October 1, 2010. (AFP Photo / Pablo Cozzaglio)
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While chaos and anarchy break out in Ecuador, the US media ignored the attempted coup. Are there more important topics on their mind, or is it simply that no one cares?
If you prefer to think outside the box, would you go to a little box called television for information? Because if you do turn to TV, you are likely to not find what you are looking for. But what if the story is big and the media is just not covering it?
Violent clashes, chaos and anarchy broke out in Ecuador. But the attempted coup d’état was not being focused on by the main TV networks in the US.
Instead, a CNN presenter, reporting on the situation around the world, put on a pair of underwear and informed the world that the Naked Cowboy – one of New York's main tourist attractions – has decided to not run for President.
Ecuador has blown in major political turmoil, but the headlines in the media are about something a little less serious. This is what some of them read on Friday: a good day for ducks in a rural area somewhere in the US, and a step-by-step guide on copying pop star Justin Beiber's hair cut.
There are over 200,000 Ecuadorians living in the New York area, without counting the undocumented population. All of these people could have been glued to their television sets to watch what happens back in their homeland. But where do they go for information, if the big networks don't cover the situation in Latin America?
In an Ecuadorian restaurant with several TVs on, RT did not see one mainstream network broadcasting.
An Ecuadorian man living in New York, Romano, said, TV news is just not reliable. He prefers something much simpler. "The best is to have a telephone. And to talk to your friends on the phone," he said.
Another young man on the streets of New York told RT he doesn't watch Fox or CNN. "They don't have much truth in there", he said.
Media critic Danny Schechter said the assumption on behalf of networks is that nobody cares about what happens in Latin America. "That's not true", he stated. "Nearly half of our population is Hispanic now, coming from Latin America, and yet the media shuts them out."
But if the media shuts out the people, the people could end up shutting off the media too.
RT asked Ecuadorian taxi driver if he knows who Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anderson Cooper are. He simply said, "no".
Unless the big pundits want their names remembered it could be time to re-consider what stories their networks cover. Keeping their mouth shut when real news happens may not be the best way to get those poor ratings up again.
02.10.2010, 02:37
3 comments
Failed coup indication leftist policies rising in Latin AmericaIt was a moment that ignited Latin America once again. The attempted coup against the democratically elected President Rafael Correa of Ecuador seemed reminiscent of previous coups that destabilized past democracies. |
03.10.2010, 02:05
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Thank you Russia Today or RT. As evidenced by the number of videos on youtube, wn.com, et al, RT is the top provider of news, analysis and opinion videos on the attempted coup on President Correa. There is no doubt in my mind that the US government aided and abbetted this failed coup. Of course these US backed coup de tats(and other funding of right wing/oligarchical interests in Latin Americ and elsewhere) more subtle now than in the days of Henry "the mass murderer" Kissinger's directly ripping off the US taxpayer and funding the Chile military, cia, General Pinochet and the death squads that immediately rounded up tens of thousands of people into soccer(football) stadiums in Chile, summarily executed thousands of them, and later the death squads that kept the bloody Pinochet in power, right after the US military/cia/ corporate complex had overthrown and assassinated, freely elected, President Allende so as to keep copper cheap for US business interests, in circa 1974. In Ecuador today there has been almost a million US government dollars funding so called ngo's ostensibly set up to spread democracy, cultural exchange, etc. But these are really "trojan horse" organizations. These organizations work for the exploitive business interests in America and their foreign collegues in developing countries. There goal is to keep wages low, keep the poor in misery, by supporting biased pro unregulated free market education to blatant aiding and abbetting coup de tats against regimes who raise wages, force entrepreneurs to pay taxes, create and maintain national health services, and in general promote the general welfare of the majority of thier citizens: the lower middle, working, and poor classes. 311427
I definitely think that this was a U.S backed coup. Anytime the U.S MSM avoids an event that means that they want the citizenry to be blind to it (namely their disruption of a foreign democracy). Just like they tried to depose the democratically elected Hugo Chavez. There is a documentary on this issue: The Revolution Will Not be Televised. Here is a link to it on Google Video, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5832390545689805144# .