Why Everything The Western Media Tells You Lot Most Venezuela Is Lies — Kit Klarenberg Interviews Alan Macleod

Over the class of ii tumultuous decades, the U.S. authorities has determinedly endeavored to destabilize, undermine too ultimately depose the democratically-elected authorities of Venezuela without pause. First they came for Hugo Chavez, too thence his successor Nicolas Maduro.

One wouldn't last able to discern this iniquitous reality from mainstream Western tidings reporting, however. Alan MacLeod, an academic specializing inwards media theory too analysis — too fellow member of Glasgow University's respected Media Group — develop out to uncovering why.

In search of answers, he compiled 501 articles, both tidings reports too reckon pieces, on Venezuela published inwards American too British newspapers during 4 pivotal periods inwards the country's recent history — Chavez's election every bit President inwards 1998, the failed Apr 2002 US-orchestrated right-wing coup, his perish inwards 2013, too the incendiary, blood-spattered opposition protests of 2014. He too conducted extensive interviews alongside many journalists too academics roofing events inside too without Caracas.
His findings are compiled inwards the majority Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty years of imitation tidings too misreporting — speaking alone to Sputnik journalist Kit Klarenberg, he summarizes the most shocking.

One of the reasons is outsourcing the tidings reporting to biased sources.

"There've been huge cuts to journalism budgets inwards recent years, too mainstream outlets increasingly rely solely on major tidings agencies — Reuters, Bloomberg — for their data almost unusual countries. As a result, a tiny cadre of Westerners — mayhap precisely a dozen people — are the beginning of most of the world's tidings almost Venezuela. Furthermore, Bloomberg too Reuters bring themselves outsourced much of their ain reporting to local Venezuelan journalists, who are uniformly antagonistic to Chavez too Maduro," [MacLeod] explains....

MacLeod's advice to tidings consumers:

"What makes this situation all the to a greater extent than egregious is such a distorted painting demo isn't inevitable — option media outlets, such every bit Al Jazeera, The Real News, Democracy Now, RT too Venezuela for instance, are dwelling to much to a greater extent than balanced coverage. My advice is to read data offered yesteryear a issue of sources, frequently published inwards parts of the basis without major geopolitical interests that are opposed to the Venezuelan government. If y'all rely solely on western mainstream sources, you'll piece of occupation on getting the same distorted painting demo too story," Alan concludes.

Sputnik International — Opinion
EXCLUSIVE: Why Everything the Western Media Tells You About Venezuela is Lies
Kit Klarenberg interviews Alan MacLeod, writer of Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty years of imitation tidings too misreporting (Routledge, 2108)

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