Extraordinary bias, including outright lying.
"I can't call them attacks..."? Read any Rory Carroll article on Chavez. I don't know what else this can be called but attack journalism--journalism DESIGNED to slander and deride; journalism that ignores plain facts, time and again, in order to make a FALSE CASE against a democratic leader.
"...they have rarely addressed subjects like Venezuelan democracy." Well, I don't have stats on the Guardian's overall subject coverage, but Rory Carroll's dishonest and viciously anti-Chavez scribblings were quite enough, in my opinion, to rename them "the Guardians of Nothing."
I've ceased to be shocked by the same disreputable so-called journalism from the New York Slimes, the Associated Pukes, Rotters, the Wall Street Urinal, and all the rest, including the BBCons. Their coverage of Chavez is how they earned their new names. But I have to say I was shocked by the Guardian, whose MAIN VOICE on Chavez was Rory Carroll.
This left the English-speaking world with NO objective coverage of the most remarkable democratic leader in the western world, arguably the greatest president in Venezuela's history, and arguably the greatest Latin American leader since Simon Bolivar--and furthermore, NO objective coverage of the people who elected him--an extraordinarily important aspect of the Venezuelan political story. ORDINARY people not only elected and re-elected this leader in the most extraordinary grass roots movement in the last half century, they--millions of Venezuelans pouring into the streets--turned back a U.S.-supported fascist coup d'etat--as far as I know, the ONLY time this has ever happened in U.S./Latin American relations prior to 2002, and an event that was overwhelmingly important to the leftist democracy revolution that subsequently occurred throughout the region. The Venezuelan people got no coverage. Their elected president got only negative, lying, propagandistic, bullshit coverage.
It has been beyond disgusting. It has been mind-boggling. And there is no better case--other than the WMDs that weren't in Iraq--for the utter degradation of western 'news' media and its toady service to the transglobal corporations, banksters and war profiteers who now rule the U.S.A. The Guardian caved to these forces on Latin America and I will never forget it, and I will never trust them again.
We have no one--NO ONE!--providing objective news on Latin America, let alone providing enlightened, pro-social justice and pro-(real)democracy views.
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