Media coverage of the new Oliver Stone film displays just the kind of ignorance of Us/Latin American relations it decries
It's nice when you make a documentary about how the major media outlets misrepresent reality, and the media response to the film proves your point. In fact, the media's response to Oliver Stone's South of the Border, which I wrote with Tariq Ali, really completes a number of the film's arguments.
The first has to do with the sloppiness and lack of knowledge that characterise the debate over Us-Latin American relations, problems to which the major media regularly contribute. A number of reviews had trouble getting the presidents and countries straight. Perhaps the most poignant example was in the Washington Post, which ran a picture of Sacha Llorenti, Bolivia's minister of government, but identifying him as Evo Morales, the country's president. Llorenti is unknown in the Us, but...
It's nice when you make a documentary about how the major media outlets misrepresent reality, and the media response to the film proves your point. In fact, the media's response to Oliver Stone's South of the Border, which I wrote with Tariq Ali, really completes a number of the film's arguments.
The first has to do with the sloppiness and lack of knowledge that characterise the debate over Us-Latin American relations, problems to which the major media regularly contribute. A number of reviews had trouble getting the presidents and countries straight. Perhaps the most poignant example was in the Washington Post, which ran a picture of Sacha Llorenti, Bolivia's minister of government, but identifying him as Evo Morales, the country's president. Llorenti is unknown in the Us, but...
- 7/16/2010
- by Mark Weisbrot
- The Guardian - Film News
Carlos Slim has a thick skin. The savior of the New York Times, who's putting $250 million into the cash-strapped paper, was attacked in the Times less than 18 months ago as a "robber baron" and a "monopolist." An Aug. 27, 2007 "Editorial Observer" column by Eduardo Porter noted that Slim was sold the Mexican national phone company in 1990 by his pal, President Carlos Salinas. "Today, it still has a 90 percent share of Mexico's landline phone service and controls almost three-quarters of the cell phone market," Porter wrote. The monopoly has bolstered Slim's $60 billion-plus fortune. Porter also brought up "the issue of theft.
- 1/21/2009
- NYPost.com
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