CORPORATE MEDIA'S TREATMENT OF MICHAEL BROWN’S STEPFATHER VERSUS THAT OF MARIA CORINA MACHADO

Today (December 3) CNN reported on the FBI’s investigation into statements by Michael Brown’s stepfather that may have incited the violence in Ferguson following the announcement of the Grand Jury’s verdict. That news item followed another on the Venezuelan government’s judicial actions against Maria Corina Machado and Leopoldo López. CNN interviewed Machado while failing to present the government’s version. The government’s version is that Lopez, Machado and their ilk were responsible for doing exactly the same that the FBI is accusing Michael Brown’s father of doing: inciting violence. The difference is that in the case of Venezuela – unlike the U.S. – seven National Guardsman and three other security forces were killed at the same time that the opposition was basically calling for the overthrow of the government. Does the corporate media realize how obviously one-sided their reporting is?