Thread by @AlanRMacLeod

Let's dissect this horrible NYT propaganda piece line by line. (thread)

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1325868311482163202

"Worries" - from whom? The totally discredited far-right opposition?

"divisive"- Morales won landslide after landslide and is the most popular politician in Bolivia's history.

Yet he is "divisive" because he is disliked by the rich white elite that NYT journalists consort with

"Failed attempt to keep power" is a weird way of saying "won a landslide re-election in the first round then was kicked out in a US-backed fascist military coup," but ok, strong start.

You'd think that maybe the deadly coup + the far-right massacres of leftists would be cited as more divisive than him standing for a fourth term.

This appears to be the line from the increasingly desperate corporate media; that there is a big split between Morales and the others in the MAS, but as @OVargas52 has cataloged, this isn't true.

(Later this week I'll have an article about this).

"Controversial" - he's literally the least controversial leader in Bolivian history.

Stacking the courts is a classic accusation leveled by media at democratically elected leftist regimes they don't like.

Next tweet you'll see why they can't appoint their enemies:

So Morales is supposed to have appointed people who don't even recognize his government's electoral victories? That'd be like condemning Obama for not appointing birthers to his cabinet/Supreme Court.

The TImes itself has nowacknowledged there was no electoral fraud (see link). Yet it can still publish this nonsense in a news article.

The writers and editors should all be sacked.

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A classic NYT trick to provide false "balance" is to present uncontroversial facts as accusations only (see link)- accusations made by people they've spent years demonizing.

The military demanding an elected president leave-or else-is obviously a coup.

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Imagine trying to present a landslide MAS victory, where they got 2x the vote of the nearest party, as somehow a repudiation of Morales. This is galaxy brain stuff here.

40 people died IN THE FASCIST COUP, not the "unrest that followed Mr Morales' bid."

See how the Times subtly shifts the presumptive blame for the massacres from the fascists (who they backed) towards Morales himself.

All in all, exceptionally deceptive

But unsurprising; I actually interviewed the author of this article years ago. He told me, on record, that he intentionally places grossly distorted news into media to further his "merecenary" agenda. @TheGrayzoneNews

thegrayzone.com/2019/12/09/sex…

If you want more on how the New York Times supported the coup (and most other ones), check out my article from November, or check the Bolivia archives on @FAIRmediawatch

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