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- Subject: The Corporate "Free Press" Covers the Elections (III)
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- The Corporate "Free Press" Covers the Elections (III)
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- "An ironic feature of the media treatment of Salvadoran elections and
- their less favorable view of the prospective Nicaraguan election is
- that both the threat to journalist safety and violations of press
- freedom are vastly greater in El Salvador that in Nicaragua. Over 30
- journalists have been murdered in El Salvador since 1979, and four
- Dutch journalists were killed only 11 days before the March 1982
- election.
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- The foreign press corps was trooped into a morgue by the Salvadoran
- army to see the bodies, with ripped genitals exposed to media view.
- This episode was suppressed in the U.S. mass media, led to no large
- outcries and generalizations about the quality of the Salvadoran
- government, and may have contributed to the remarkable mass media
- silence on unfavorable media (as well as other) conditions in the
- incipient democracy. U.S. reporters can report what they like from
- Nicaragua without fear of bodily harm.
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- This is not so in El Salvador But the media cannot admit that in our
- client state they must adjust reports and reporters because of literal
- threats of death for improper thought.
-
- [Edward S Herman, previously cited]
-