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A year ago, US corporate media took the opportunity of Hugo Chavezs death to heap abuse on the radical Latin American leader. A month later, the same news outlets marked Margaret Thatchers death with effusive praise for the right-wing changes she had brought to Britain. Remember this the next time someone tells you that journalism has a left-wing bias. As president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez used his nations oil wealth to oversee a dramatic reduction in inequality, making his country the most economically egalitarian in Latin America: https://nacla.org/blog/2013/3/15/venezuela-new-yorkers-jon-lee-anderson-fails-arithmetic As prime minister of Britain, Margaret Thatcher used her nations North Sea oil to make her society dramatically more unequal: guardian.co.uk/politics/datablog/2013/apr/08/britain-changed-margaret-thatcher-charts As a result, U.S. corporate media treated Chavez with scorn when he died: fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/in-death-as-in-life-chavez-target-of-media-scorn/ Thatcher, meanwhile, is praised by everyone from Fox News to the PBS NewsHour: fair.org/blog/2013/04/09/on-thatcher-whats-the-difference-between-pbs-fox-news/
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:08:19 +0000

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