For years we have passed information to the New York Times and other papers. They have ignored it, even when a Bolivian consul offered his house to a NYT journalist and offered to set up an interview with Evo Morales. A press reception in the Bolivian consulate in New York, on 30 June, 2010, was ignored by the NYT, the NY Post and the NY Daily News. A short cab or subway ride away from their offices, or a ten minute walk for any able bodied journalists, was too much to undertake.
Even when Bolivian officials visited this city and spoke at major institutions, such as Colombia University, the journalists here took no note. Morales too spoke, at a convenient midtown location, and they were nowhere to be seen.
Bolivia, twice the size of France, or Texas, with its great diversity ethnically and geographically, has great opportunity for any real journalist. Recently, much of this has been positive, with the great increases in minimum wage, education and living conditions, the creation of more infrastructure and tourism, etc.
But none of this reaches the pages of the New York Times. I seldom get a google alert on my email; but recently it has been a constant stream of alerts about NYT pieces on Bolivia; all hit pieces.
Here is a sampling:
17 Feb (AP) "6 Dead of Asphyxiation in Bolivian Protest"
19 Feb (Editorial Board) "Three Terms is Enough for Morales"
21 Feb (AP) "Ballot Question on Morales Re-election in Trouble"
22 Feb (Nicholas Casey) "Polls Show Bolivian Leader Losing Vote"
25 Feb (Nicholas Casey) "Morales Concedes Defeat"
27 Feb (Nicholas Casey) "Former Lover in Jail"
There is a great irony of all this coming from a town where the former mayor had three terms, and wanted more; Michael Bloomberg. He is a pressman, but there was no such hit campaign against his seeking re-election in the NYT. The public voted for term limits for him and for Morales, as they did with Roosevelt. But somehow the NYT makes this
seem like something terrible is happening in Bolivia, and specifically with Morales' administration, and probes into his personal life, what with claims of a son who passed away but now there is someone claiming the son is alive and a former girlfriend whom he broke up with. No one is sure what is happening, but busybodies are spending their time consumed with it.
I thought such kind of reporting was in the National Enquirer, along with Elvis sightings and UFOs.
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The NYT is NOT to be trusted. It is against Bolivia since Morales did not let Bechtel take over. So they made as much trouble for him as they could with their stories hoping he would not be around to fight off the vultures trying to enslave that nation, while over here they are trying to take down Trump. Local knowledge is that NYT journos spend lots of time in the pron shops - which are conveniently located around the perimeter, the worst kind of sleeze with incest, scat, bestiality, weird weird stuff this is what they spend their time doing, no wonder they could not make a press reception at a consulate or interview the president. Too busy watching low life porn.
ReplyDeleteTrump wants to put limits on this weird stuff and the NYT journalists are worried. This is what they equate with freedom. Porn and drugs. Just ask Jayson Blair.
The NYT is a windbag. They are afraid to take on problems here in NY, where is their reporting about the crazy city council head, Melissa Mark Viverito who wants to free terrorists who killed American citizens on the 4th of July? Or do they think that is cool? Much of the press here is sick, run by nasty slacker, like Rolling Stone hacks who thought it was cool to run an interview with narco-terrorist El Chapo.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the reason they don't like Evo Morales is that he cut down on drug dealers in Bolivia.
NYT does not cover major things in NY; leave Bolivia alone. It has has major improvements with Evo Morales. It does not need the NYT.
ReplyDeleteThe NYT misses so many stories about NY; For instance, the serious danger that Melissa Mark Viverito poses as she tries to get terrorists out of jail and back on the streets of NY where they killed US citizens on the 4th of July.
ReplyDeleteOr the bedbug hotel down the street from the Times Building where presently the city had to order a restraining order to stop bad work, or the order from Judge Kaplan ordering it to clean up - which was ignored, as the building, at 370 8th Avenue, bred bedbugs for years and the NYT reporters refused to check it out. Another paper did, and confirmed the reports - that was the Epoch Times in summer of 2010. In the years that the NYT has ignored this and other things NYC has suffered an epidemic of bedbugs.
Or more recently, the bike thugs at Homer Messenger service, around the corner almost from the NYT - who steal, threaten, assault (on Youtube) people in Hell's Kitchen... and spit on the food they deliver.
So where is the NEW YORK TIMES on any stories to do with NEW YORK? Guys, terrorists? Bike thugs? Bedbugs? Melissa Mark Viverito? You got a lot to report on here before you go to Bolivia like a busybody bully and try to tattle on Evo Morales.
Idiots.