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Colombia Turns on Media Amid Barrage of Lies and Propaganda

May 28, 2021

By Adriaan Alsema – May 26, 2021

Public support for Colombia’s mass media has plummeted as they persistently contradict citizen reporting, a poll confirmed.

According to pollster Invamer, public approval of the news media dropped from 41% to 31% since ongoing anti-government protests began on April 28.

The approval of “the media” in Colombia has been dropping for a decade, but plummeted in May after a wave of social media reports on police brutality was blatantly contradicted by mass media.

Media approval

Colombians become their own reporters
While citizens reported extreme violence by the security forces on social media, Colombia’s mass media almost exclusively reported on incidents of vandalism by “protesters.”

On some days, citizens were literally begging the international community for help while media were replicating a government conspiracy theory that the largely peaceful protests would be coordinated by guerrilla groups.

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The crimes against humanity reported by citizens triggered a wave of international indignation and motion of confidence against Defense Minister Diego Molano based exclusively on citizen reports.

Alien media
In one case, media replicated unsubstantiated claims that native Colombian victims of an attempted massacre in Cali were vandalizing “citizens’” property.

Violence in Cali escalated to the point that residents of Colombia’s third largest city asked foreign correspondents not to leave, claiming they were afraid that police terror would resume.

Last week, television network RCN reported on “20 days of roadblocks and vandalism,” while the vast majority of protests of the past month were entirely peaceful.

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Earlier this month, the television claimed food prices in Bogota were “a lot more expensive” after a shopkeeper told the reporter that prices had gone down.

Reporter: Good afternoon. You were talking to me about lime and cassava.
Shopkeeper: Good afternoon, miss. Yes, the price of lime at the moment has dropped a bit and is at a relatively normal price.
Reporter: How expensive is it? Let’s say, if I take five limes?
Shopkeeper: Between 1,500 or 2,000 pesos, depending on the size of the lime.
Reporter: And how much was it last week?
Shopkeeper: Between 2,500 and 3,000 pesos.
Reporter: And the cassava? You told me cassava was also expensive.
Shopkeeper: Cassava was at 2,500 pesos per pound while right now it is in between 1,500 and 2,000.
Reporter: A lot more expensive, 1,000 pesos more expensive. Thank you very much.

RCN Television
On Tuesday, the network ignored the bulk of evidence of state terrorism presented in Congress and claimed that the government was summoned by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission over the “very serious attacks on ambulances.”

 

 

Featured image: File Photo

(Colombia Reports)

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