Carter Center project map media's influence on Peru elections

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Groups Map Media's Influence on Elections

Groups Use Internet, Interactive Mapping Technology to Track Media's Influence on Elections
By RICK VECCHIO

The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru - Good-government groups are using the Internet and interactive mapping technology to chart how mass media affect elections using Peru's rugged, village-dotted countryside as a testing ground.

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Polls show most Peruvians have little faith in democratic institutions and tend to believe their politicians are crooks, in cahoots with vested business interests, including the media.

"The lack of transparency in politics in general and in media in particular is huge in this country," said Jaime Montoya, director of Citizen Participation, a democracy building program sponsored by Peru's Congress.

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"Like everywhere else in the world, the big owners of communication chains aren't absolutely neutral or transparent. They respond to certain interests," he said.

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[sasha031]

1. I always find it amazing, the perception other nation have

their understanding that corporations and government equal fascism. Whether they be the indigenous people or a struggling village, they know what they are up against, unlike the koolaid drinkers here.

[valerief]

2. But most people here aren't Kool Aid drinkers

Most are disgusted and, like the Evil Mama *, don't want to waste their beautiful minds on the military-industrial complex bullies.

This is true everywhere, no matter what Katie Couric and all the other lap dogs blather to you every day.