On December 1, 1987, the New York Times, in an editorial urging the ad...
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- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media whole source · open book
On December 1, 1987, the New York Times, in an editorial urging the administration not to betray Haitian Democrats by “shrugging off impoverished and anarchic Haiti as a hopeless case,” states that doing so “would undermine Washington’s protestations about the need for free elections in Nicaragua.” The wording is murky, and the remarks on Haiti characteristically ignore Washington’s support of the Duvalierists who made the elections a mockery, but it is clear that the Times accepts the Reagan line that free elections were not held in Nicaragua in 1984 and that the U.S.
chapter: 3 Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua