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Judi Lynn

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1. Colombia's television news: pimping journalism with elegant propaganda

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Thu Nov 26, 2020, 07:57 PM

Nov 2020

by Adriaan Alsema July 10, 2020

After independent media revealed evidence of ties between #Colombia’s ruling party and the mafia, the country’s corporate television networks were quick to cover this up.

The news programs of RCN Television and Caracol dedicated not even a second to the scandal that led opposition Senator Gustavo Petro to call President Ivan Duque‘s 2018 election “illegitimate.”

. . .

RCN omitted the evidence that the regional chief of far-right Democratic Center party had been celebrating Duque’s allegedly fraudulent 2018 election with the mafia.

Instead, the television network broadcast the president talking about “the swindlers of neo-Chavism who want to go out in our nations to sow chaos and ride on the discourse of chaos to their nefarious attempts to assume power.”

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https://colombiareports.com/colombias-television-news-pimping-journalism-with-elegant-propaganda/

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