"Why Can't Foreign Lefties Learn to Be Objective Like Us?"

[GreenPartyVoter]

There really is nothing more amusing than members of the mainstream U.S. press getting on their high horses about the state of journalism in other countries. A classic case in point is the article written by Gary Marx of the Chicago Tribune on the new Latin American satellite channel, Telesur.

Marx, it seems, is very concerned over possible conflicts of interest at the new 24-hour channel, as evidenced by the title of the piece: "Will Truth go South on Telesur News?" (Ha! Ha! "Go South." Latin America! Get it???) The blurb under the title doesn't get any more subtle: "Billed as an indigenous alternative to CNN and others, the new channel has backing from Cuba and Venezuela, raising concerns over objectivity." Marx notes that, "critics say the station could become a propaganda tool for the region's re-emerging left," and that the general manager of the station, Aram Aharonian, is both "pugnacious" and "pony-tailed." Naturally, as Marx artfully sledgehammers home to his readers, objectivity (and possibly a marijuana-free newsroom) can never be achieved with hair below the collar.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0718-24.htm

[maxsolomon]

1. ha. his last name is Marx.

like a COMMUNIST. so who cares what HE thinks?

gary, why don't you try smearing the GM as unmanly, while you're at it? with that last name, he doesn't SOUND like a right-thinking latin american. its sounds FRENCH, maybe BOHEMIAN (actually, Armenian).

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Had me laughing too

[getmeouttahere]

2. Fortunately most of their readers....

either don't care about this at all or don't understand. Which is of course a problem because then people like Marx can hammer home their opinions and biases and it becomes the truth to the sheeple.

www.handsoffvenezuela.org

Power to the re-emerging left!!!