The Hypocrisy of Human Rights Watch
Over more than a decade, the rise of the left in Latin American governance has led to remarkable advances ...
“This American Life” Whitewashes U.S. Crimes in Central America, Wins Peabody Award
Celebrating 2012’s best examples of broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody Awards attracted the likes of D.L. Hughley, Amy ...
Washing U.S. Hands of the Dirty Wars: News Coverage Erases Washington’s Role in State Terror
ERRATUM: This version of "Washing U.S. Hands of the Dirty Wars" reflects a number of editing and proofreading corrections ...
The New York Times on Venezuela and Honduras: A Case of Journalistic Misconduct
The day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died, New York Times reporter Lizette Alvarez provided a sympathetic portrayal of ...
Reporting on Romer’s Charter Cities: How the Media Sanitize Honduras’s Brutal Regime
On the evening of Saturday, September 22, human rights lawyer Antonio Trejo stepped outside a wedding ceremony to take a ...
Little Credibility: U.S. Coverage of Iranian-Latin American Relations
In January, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a weeklong tour of Latin America, visiting Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, and finally ...
Undocumented, Not Illegal: Beyond the Rhetoric of Immigration Coverage
In June, Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas came out as an undocumented person. Many advocates were inspired by his ...
Refusing to Hear: Press Coverage of the Chilean Miners
It was, countless newspapers and magazines informed us, the “most triumphant” story of 2010. The rescue of 33 Chilean miners ...
