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Philip Cryan on Latin American Coverage

Submitted February 24, 2004 - 8:17 pm by Al Giordano
Philip Cryan, who just got back to Iowa from 18 months in Colombia, has a
splendid, point by point, dissection (via Counterpunch) of the inauthentic journalism by the Wall Street Journal's resident commie-hunter, Mary Anastasia O'Grady...

In one of her Wall Street Journal columns last year, Mary Anastasia O'Grady wrote that U.S. lawmakers and State Department officials who criticize the Colombian military's human rights record are "still fighting the Cold War, on the wrong side." She struck again February 6, accusing nongovernmental organizations of publishing fraudulent statistics about Colombia's record. She said they're "cooking the human-rights books," aiding a guerrilla effort to dupe U.S. officials into reducing military aid.

O'Grady, a senior Journal editorial writer since 1999, is far from the only journalist guilty of bias and omission in coverage of Colombia. Most U.S. reporters provide no historical context and base their claims on government sources and on opinion polls that exclude the country's poor majority.

But O'Grady's distortions differ from such biases. They are purposeful and consistent, systematic....

Read it all.

Does anybody know this guy? I wanna read more!

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