[lbo-talk] OAS Criticizes US Interference in Nicaragua's Election, But the New York Times and the Washington Post Don't Think It's Newsworthy

[Robert Naiman]

OAS Criticizes US Interference in Nicaragua's Election, But the New
York Times and the Washington Post Don't Think It's Newsworthy
Huffington Post

Last weekend, election monitors from the Organization of American
States criticized the Bush Administration's interference in
Nicaragua's upcoming presidential election.

Here's how you would have known this if you follow mainstream news
sources in the United States: if you saw the Reuters story on Yahoo
News.

Here's how you wouldn't have known it: from reading the New York Times
or the Washington Post, even on their web sites, even though they both
subscribe to Reuters, and carry lots of Reuters articles on their web
sites. Go to their web sites and try to find it...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-weisbrot-and-robert-naiman/oas-criticizes-us-interfe_b_32455.html

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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org