So much essential information has been delivered in the link posted in the second tweet! I have heard of Empresas Polar, at least 20 years ago. Good grief! Had no idea how powerful that vast corporation really IS! The names discussed are so significant, so important to people wanting to know, but being misinformed by corporate media!
One named popped up I scanned in a search, and discovered he has written something shared with CNN message board readers 19 or 20 years ago in a now inactive message board system by a poster who had also been a UPI journalist in South America for many years, before it was sucked up by ultra-right-wing Bush family friend, Rev. Sung Myung Moon. Here is the very same description shared by a different authority explaining how it is we get so much twisted news about the Americas:
Book Description
Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an important news item. Western coverage is shaped by the cultural milieu of its journalists, with news written from New York or London by non-specialists or by those staying inside wealthy guarded enclaves in an intensely segregated Caracas. Journalists mainly work with English-speaking elites and have little contact with the poor majority. Therefore, they reproduce ideas largely attuned to a Western, neoliberal understanding of Venezuela.
https://www.routledge.com/Bad-News-from-Venezuela-Twenty-years-of-fake-news-and-misreporting/Macleod/p/book/9781138489233?fbclid=IwAR2jqjg084vd-An2ZIPV-aFclEUYAZIXPlgsAU_o4jgXHfr0OhQpoJ0RMZg
Thanks so much for providing such important food for thought!
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