Political Urinalism Living in Peru

Here we go again. More distortion of the truth. Living in Peru has this headline in their 2011 Elections section (May 19, 2011 [17:21])

“Fujimori’s speaker: “We killed less””

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/

They accompanied that headline with this Spanish language video, without subtitles nor full transcript, on an all English language site.

VIDEO: Fujimori’s speaker: “We killed less”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3KZgUuxFQE

This is very deceptive urinalism [sic]. First this video shows split-screen footage of Keiko Fujimori’s current campaign on one side while on the other side a discussion of corruption during her father’s presidency (from July 28, 1990 to November 17, 2000) is taking place. Then they take one ineloquently stated fact, during a more substantive discussion of the administrative corruption during Alberto Fujimori’s presidency, and make it into a sensationalized headline, (Fujimori’s speaker: “We killed less.”), with the implication that this somehow taints Keiko. Non-Spanish speakers would never know any of this. Jorge Trelles’ comment was not an “excuse” but a poorly chosen explanation, attempting to put into context, the heinous times Alberto Fujimori faced.

It could be that these people who put this junk out can’t (mentally or emotionally) get over the fact that Keiko and her father (Alberto) are not Siamese twins connected cerebrally at the head. And that 2011 (politically and economically) unquestionably bears no resemblance to 1990 and the absolute murderous inbred corruption running through the veins of every aspect of Peru’s power structure from top to bottom. That was all out war and many people (even innocent people) get kill in a war. It is in that context that this unfortunate choice of words came about. It has absolutely no connection to Keiko nor her candidacy.

That is one option. The other two options are less pretty. 1. They publish this crap to gain eyeballs 2. They themselves are corrupt and are waging a misinformation war against Keiko Fujimori.

Ortiz said to Trelles, “Do you realize you just gave a long-dreamed headline to La República as a gift?”

Looks like Trelles gave the same long-dreamed headline to Living in Peru.

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