WHY
HAS SO MUCH JOURNALISM SUCCUMBED TO PROPAGANDA?
Journalism should
monitor, deconstructs and counters propaganda and teaches the young to be
agents of people, not power
Why are censorship and
distortion standard practice? Why is the CLARIN group so often a mouthpiece of
rapacious power? Why do CLARIN and the LA NACION deceive their readers?
We have war by media;
censorship by media; demonology by media; retribution by media; diversion by
media - a surreal assembly line of obedient clichés and false assumptions.
IF
CLARIN NEEDS TO JUSTIFY ITSELF AS BEING A CREDIBLE MEDIA OUTLET, AS THEY DO IN THEIR LATEST ADVERTISEMENT, THEN SOMETHING
TRULY IS WRONG WITH OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM IN ARGENTINA:
CLARÍN’S
LIES, DIRTY TRICKS AND EXTORTION
The CLARÍN group is
organizing a “dirty tricks” campaign to undermine Victory Front’s main
candidates from now until the October elections. The strength of the lists
presented by the ruling party has prompted the general staff of HÉCTOR
MAGNETTO’S group to relaunch their campaign of lies and false accusations to
prevent the DANIEL SCIOLI-CARLOS ZANNINI ticket from winning in the first
round.
“We’ve just 50 days to prevent an overwhelming government triumph in the
PASO primaries,” summarized one of the group’s main editors in a confidential
meeting held just hours after SCIOLI announced that his running-mate would be ZANNINI
on TV channel C5N.
Their top brass defined a
series of specific targets to take aim at in the short time remaining until the
vote. The list includes the names of MÁXIMO KIRCHNER, AXEL KICILLOF, ZANNINI and
SCIOLI, among others.
Background
Information:
COUP – MONGERING
CLARIN MEDIA GROUP – COLLABORATOR OF THE FASCIST 1976 -83 MILITARY JUNTA
ARGENTINA HAS NO
LIABLE POLITICAL OPPOSITION, OTHER THAN SELF SEEKING INDIVIDUALS SUPPORTED BY
THE CLARIN GROUP
ARGENTINE’S
"INVISIBLE OPPOSITION", CONSISTING OF SELF - SEEKING ONE MAN SHOWS,
WHO USE CORPORATE MEDIA TO OPPOSE THE GOVERNMENT
CLARIN - SOWING THE SEEDS OF DOUBT AMONG
That’s the strategy. The
implementation will not be especially creative. More of the same — inventions
and charges which, although denied on solid ground a few hours later, sow the
seeds of doubt in the population. Recent examples of such practices abound.
Last March 31 the
journalist DANIEL SANTORO denounced in CLARÍN that máximo kirchner and NILDA
GARRÉ had secret accounts in the UNITED STATES and the CAYMAN Islands. Mostly
written in conditional tenses to avoid litigation, the article was the
newspaper’s lead.
“MÁXIMO KIRCHNER allegedly
co-owns two secret accounts with GARRÉ.” The article pointed out that they
“allegedly held” one account in the FELTON Bank in the UNITED STATES with 61
million dollars, and the other in MORVAL Bank, in the CAYMAN Islands, with 19
million dollars.
This use of the
conditional tense, banned by CLARÍN’S own style book, betrays that both the
journalists and editors knew that it was a lie. That same day MÁXIMO KIRCHNER and
NILDA GARRÉ denied the CLARÍN story.
WHEN
THE TRUTH IS REPLACED BY SILENCE, THE SILENCE IS A LIE
Weeks later FELTON Bank,
at GARRÉ’S request, informed that it had no accounts in her name. CLARÍN then
assured that the account “was allegedly in the name of Business and Services
IBC, in BELIZE.” A few days later that lie also collapsed. The bank assured
that this company had no accounts in that country and BELIZE itself pointed out
that the firm did not exist. Everything had been a lie.
On May 14 CLARÍN headlined:
“While battling the trade unions, KICILLOF earns over 400,000 pesos” with the
subheading: “His fees as an YPF director.” Although KICILLOF denied this on the
first hour of the following day, the lie was repeated for hours by TV station TN,
Radio Mitre and the rest of the MAGNETTO holding’s media. At noon YPF issued a
press release saying: “AXEL KICILOFF’S work as director is totally ad honorem.”
Another falsehood quickly denied and dismantled in hours.
The CLARÍN editors knew
all the time that this invention was only going to last a few hours, but
trusted in part of the public never learning the truth. That’s why the
denunciation of the 400,000-peso salary was front-page news while the YPF
denial only appeared in page 27.
MEDIA
CIRCUS CLOWN - JORGE LANATA A FAR FETCH FROM SERIOUS JOURNALISM
The figurehead of MAGNETTO’S
army is JORGE LANATA. The former Enemy Number One of the group was wooed and
surrounded by comedians, impersonators and acrobats who sneaked in amid the
circus of some media organizations who are also key producers of the show.
Background
Information:
MAIN STREAM MEDIA
INFLUENCE IN ARGENTINA
MAURICIO MACRI AND
THE CLARIN GROUP
THE OPPOSITION IS
CLARIN - THE NEOLIBERAL CONGLOMERATE
TRIO INFERNALE: MACRI
- CLARIN AND THE VULTURE FUNDS
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| Jorge Lanata |
Less successful but
disseminated more intensively by the group was the accusation that President CRISTINA
FERNÁNDEZ DE KIRCHNER had made a stop in the SEYCHELLES Islands to set up a
type of financial operation in that tax haven. Without a shred of proof in hand
or sources to cite, LANATA plucked from thin air a story which summarized the
journey of a journalist to the Islands. The TV show presented how the journalist
failed to obtain a single quote from the entire trip. To every question the
response was in the negative. When they returned, Lanata said: “Now I am more
convinced than ever of the accusation.” He had gone beyond any limit in
underestimating his audience.
LANATA had not done any
research. The presidential decree of January 10, 2014 concerning trips to the UNITED
ARAB EMIRATES, CUBA and other countries, commented on the stops and informed
that the one in in the SEYCHELLES “was not a simple stop to load fuel but was
to stay for the minimum amount of time to allow the crew to take a rest.” LANATA
pursued the subject, installing the phrase “The K money trail” without worrying
about providing a single item of proof or government statement. The lie was
installed.
THE ALBERTO NISMAN CASE....
.....was, perhaps, the largest
mass of lies disseminated by CLARÍN. They were all dismissed by the judiciary,
whose statements were based on the experts of the Supreme Court. CLARÍN said within
a space of few months that the gun was placed
15 centimeters from head, that the bathroom door was open, that there was a
secret passage and that the back door was open— which had contaminated the
crime scene— and more. The experts of the Supreme Court dismissed each one of
those falsehoods.
On May 4 PEPE MUJICA dismissed
a CLARÍN report. The newspaper had published that the former URUGUAY head of
state had said the president was a “bad egg”. MUJICA responded: “I did not say
the things that are published in CLARÍN’s headline today. Look at how they have
hit that woman.” On June 21 CLARÍN asserted that in a bilateral meeting at the
Summit of the AMERICAS OBAMA had complained to the president about supposed
trade barriers. The next day the US president said: “It is false, the words trade
barriers never came up in our conversation.” Another denial.
Background
Information:
THE ECONOMIST, A FAR
CRY FROM OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM WHEN IT COMES TO REPORTING ON ARGENTINA
ARGENTINE BASHING –
THE ECONOMISTS SORRY JOURNALISM
In several articles at
the start of March CLARÍN claimed that, worried about the social situation, POPE
FRANCIS would organize talks in the VATICAN. The articles affirmed that the
meeting would take place on March 19. The denial swiftly followed. ALICIA
BARRIOS, a journalist with a warm relationship with FRANCIS, told INFOBAE that
she had spoken on the telephone with the Pope, who unequivocally denied the
story. Days later LA NACIÓN revealed that VATICAN sources also contradicted the
reports circulated by CLARÍN.
It is clear that the CLARÍN
Group is an expert in lies, “dirty tricks” campaigns and extortion. Now it aims
to tarnish the main candidates of the Victory Front. More lies can be expected
in due course.
Adapted by Geopolitical
Analysis and Monitoring from the original article written by Roberto Navarro
via Buenos Aires Herald
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