Whitewashing is not reform
As in the United States, the major news media ignore, for the most part, dissenting and independent political and social voices. And those who appear as experts and pundits have long since been suborned by the subsidies available to the media monsters and their political and financial allies. The interests of investors and the ruling political class eclipse those of the vulnerable and unrepresented: Indians, women, children, farmers, the under-employed, under-fed and public needs like meaningful education, security reform and state support for the Rule of Law.
In a disturbing development in the telecommunications reform, the President and the Secretary of the Interior will have the power to censor Internet communications, including email, Twitter, Facebook messaging and others.
In this trend, censorship poses as modernization; and dictatorial control, as democracy.
The PRI and the two media monopolies Televisa and TVAzteca—Charybdis and Scylla.
(Denise Dresser, translated by Sterling Bennett…. translation here)
