Here's a report put together by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Washington based liberal thinktank) about New York Times coverage of south-american politics. The big note is that nytimes seems to selective report "bad stuff" done by anyone left-of-center while seeming to have a blanket-ban on reporting anything bad done by anyone right-of-center. The main data looked at is Venezuelan news coverage, however there's evidence it extends to other nations and topics.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13412The dataset is all the incidents of violence in 1 year in Venezuela, divided by responsible side of violence and intensity. While the right-wing dominate the "high" intensity violence incidents (31 high-intensity acts) and medium (14 acts) and the left were involved in 12 high-intensity acts, and 9 medium acts, the nytimes reported on violence in venezuela 33 times during the time period, yet 31 times they 100% blamed the left, and 2 times they didn't clearly attribute either side.
This definitely backs up my idea that people are fooling themselves if they think that Corporation #A's corporate media is the "left" of America and Corporation #B's corporate media is the "right" of America. Both are on the right, it's just about how far to the right you are. nytimes
doesn't like actual Nazis.That's low-hanging fruit. Unless they're Latino Nazis, in which case they literally shit gold.
“The Post’s views,” such as post-critics director Larry Birns, Mills, Pineo counter-editorial observe, “appear to have been formed by uncritically accepting all of the propaganda offered up by the right-wing opposition press in Venezuela.”
Basically, what this is saying is that the New York Times and Washington Post
uncritically reprint news articles from the South American equivalents of FOX News, instead of doing their own research.
e.g. another point of data is what nytimes thinks of Colombia's previous leader Uribe
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/opinion/the-man-blocking-peace-in-colombia.htmlYou wouldn't know about any of his
family's death squad and
drug lord links and the links between his government's army's widespread mass-murders of peasants. From this, all they say is that peace is Uribe's legacy, and that he needs to get on board with the FARC peace process to protect that legacy. It's like doing a write-up on Hitler and only mentioning the VW Beetle and the Autobahn or something.
https://nacla.org/news/colombia%E2%80%99s-magic-laptopsMeanwhile, the very day after the Interpol report received so much news coverage .. the website of the Colombian magazine Semana reported that hard drives and mobile-phone SIM cards belonging to high-level paramilitary leaders extradited to the United States on drug-trafficking charges, had been lost. Hardware belonging to three paramilitary leaders disappeared and was never recovered. Information taken from the laptop of one of the paramilitary bosses, Rodrigo Tovar Pupo a.k.a. Jorge 40, sparked the so-called paramilitary-political scandal in spring 2006, eventually leading to the jailing of more than 30 of Uribe’s parliamentary allies, including Mario Uribe, his cousin, on charges of colluding with narco-paramilitaries.
So ...
30+ of Uribe's party's congressmen including his cousin ended up being
convicted as allies to drug-dealing death squads, because of evidence of
one drug lord extradited to the USA. Half his government was literally working hand in hand with a secret army of psycho chainsaw-murdering cocaine addicts, who eliminated anyone who dares question the ruling party. And we're only talking like 10 years ago. His niece is also a drug-lord ally, and his brother is one of the narco-death squad leaders. Then, in 2008 his government conveniently lost all the evidence against a numer of other drug lords, and which was conveniently announced a few days after they
Bombed Ecuador and was lost in the shitstorm of whether there would be a war. Meanwhile the Bush administration decided to let the drug evidence thing slide and criticize Ecuador instead for not being ok with being bombed (Ecuador had recently refused to renew the lease on the US airbase before this happened).
Plus I haven't even got into the scale of the death squad and army atrocities going on during Uribe's regime. Not of their secret police activities against independent journalists and the like. And New York times would have you believe that Uribe's only legacy is "peace".