FAIR:
"One year ago, as both the Trump administration in the US and the Johnson government in the UK responded fitfully to the growing pandemic, the international media were looking for whipping boys: other countries whose response to the virus was even worse.
There were some cases of obvious neglect—Brazil was and is a prime example (FAIR.org, 4/12/20). But the press also turned on Nicaragua, repeating allegations from local opposition groups that the Sandinista government was in denial about the dangers, and that the country was poised on the edge of disaster.
When, as the death toll in other countries grew alarmingly, Nicaragua 'flattened the curve' of virus cases more quickly than its neighbors, its apparent success was ignored. Despite the importance of identifying how poorer countries can contain the virus effectively, measures used by Nicaragua remain uninvestigated by the international media. Why did this come about?"
https://fair.org/home/with-nicaragua-scary-covid-projections-are-more-newsworthy-than-hopeful-results/
-->Read this report from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting if you want to know just how distorted the Western media is about Nicaragua. The article by John Perry, who was on Activist Radio last month, simply destroys the Guardian, the BBC, and the NYT when it comes to reporting about Nicaragua's quite astounding success in controlling COVID. It's death rate is lower than all its surrounding countries. But the mainstream media in the UK and US print little more than propaganda when it comes to the next targets for military interventions. As an example of this biased reporting, read:
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Common Dreams:
"Since 2015, AT&T, Comcast, UnitedHealth Group, Walmart, and other big businesses have donated a combined $50 million to state Republican lawmakers who are currently supporting voter suppression bills across the United States—generous political spending at odds with recent corporate efforts to rebrand as defenders of voting rights.
A new report (pdf) released Monday morning by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen found that during the 2020 election cycle alone, U.S. corporations donated $22 million to Republican architects of voter suppression bills that are advancing through state legislatures nationwide.
'AT&T [since 2015] has given the most, $811,000,' Public Citizen found, citing data from The National Institute on Money in Politics. 'AT&T is followed by Altria/Philip Morris, Comcast, UnitedHealth Group, Walmart, State Farm, and Pfizer. Household names that fell just out of the top 25 list... include Nationwide ($182,000), Merck ($180,000), CVS ($174,000), John Deere ($159,000), and Caterpillar ($157,000).' "
-->Why wouldn't the NYT print this story about how corporations have funded these state laws to limit voting? Well, the NYT always comes down in favor of the nations largest corporations. If you don't know this already, you haven't been reading Fantasyland Media!
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Common Dreams:
"Rashida Tlaib Hails Shift in House Dems' Views on Palestinian Human Rights.
'Just a few years ago, it would have been unthinkable to have 12 members of Congress refer to Israeli occupation as colonialism, so I have no doubt that the needle on Palestinian human rights is moving.'
Referring to a recent letter in which a dozen House Democrats called on the Biden administration to oppose Israeli 'settler colonialism' in Palestine, Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Friday said that support is growing like never before in Congress for Palestinian human rights.
Haaretz reports the Michigan Democrat's remarks came during a webinar hosted by American Muslims for Palestine and the Jewish anti-occupation IfNotNow Movement, during which she condemned Israel's 'apartheid system' —including 'medical apartheid' during the coronavirus pandemic—while sounding hopeful about the erosion of the reflexively pro-Israel stance that has long characterized Congress."
-->This story didn't make it into the NYT either. If there is one thing that the NYT defends more than major corporations, it is Israel's apartheid occupation of the Holy Land.
