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Edited on Sat Apr-23-11 08:46 AM by Peace Patriot
They use it THREE TIMES in this so-called news article, never mentioning a source, never giving a quote, never attributing the opinion. Count 'em...
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QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa is likely to achieve a sweeping victory in a referendum next month that calls for an overhaul of the justice system, a poll by Ecuadorean pollster Cedatos showed on Friday.
In the May 7 vote, Ecuadoreans will endorse or reject 10 proposals socialist Correa says will modernize the Andean nation but critics fear are intended to strengthen his power and curb judicial independence.
The Cedatos poll gives two reforms calling for a judicial shake-up 62.2 percent and 64.1 percent support, respectively.
The proposals call for the creation of a panel that would overhaul the judiciary and appoint top judges. The temporary panel would be replaced by a five-member council with a six-year mandate.
Correa argues the changes will allow the state to stamp out corruption and inefficiency in courts and thus help police to better fight rising crime, but his critics say his real aim is to win power over judicial appointments.
The Cedatos poll shows the whole package of 10 reforms, including new rules banning bull fighting, would be endorsed by an average of 61.7 percent of voters.
The survey indicates less support for a proposal to prohibit banks and the media from owning shares in companies outside their sectors. The government says the move is aimed at preventing conflicts of interest but some Ecuadoreans fear it is an attack on media freedoms. The proposal is backed by 51.6 percent of voters, Cedatos said.
The poll of 3,750 people was carried out on April 20 and had a margin of error of 5 percentage points.
It was published on Cedatos' website, but not by local media because Ecuadorean law forbids the publication of polls in the 20 days leading to a public vote.
(Reporting by Eduardo Garcia; editing by Todd Eastham)
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The Associated Pukes also use this technique--"his critics say"--and what both of them are doing--the Rotters and the Pukes--is hiding scurrilous fascist sources within the country or CIA/U.S. embassy sources.
I first noticed "his critics say...", way back, in an Associated Pukes article about Hugo Chavez, shortly after the U.S./Bushwhack supported fascist coup was defeated by the Venezuelan people (circa 2003). "His critics say that he is increasingly authoritarian." I searched far and wide for anybody who had said, at that point, that Chavez was "increasingly authoritarian." The only source I could find was a rabidly anti-Chavez Catholic cardinal who had spent most of his career in the Vatican finance office and had been fired by the Vatican in the fascist banking scandals of the 1980s. He regularly railed against Chavez from his pulpit in Caracas. He had actually said that Chavez "is increasingly authoritarian."
It turned out that one of the Catholic cardinal's beefs with Chavez was that Chavez was cutting government subsidies to the Catholic Church--a laudable democratic action, it seems to me. "Increasingly authoritarian"? Bah! And he and other fascist prelates had participated in the fascist coup d'etat against Chavez in 2002, wherein the coupsters suspended the constitution, the courts, the National Assembly and all civil rights. WHO was being "authoritarian"?
I don't know for sure that he was the source, but I couldn't find any other. And this research effort alerted me to this technique by which corporate news shills get their fatcat corporate bosses' opinion into a so-called news story. "His critics say...".
It is always used against leftists. It is never used against fascists, rightwingers, corporatists, warmongers, or U.S. politicians. For instance, you will never find this in an article about George W. Bush and the non-existent WMDs in Iraq: "President Bush said that the WMDs will be found in Iraq but his critics say that the evidence for WMDs in Iraq is false."
Think about it. There were high-profile, knowledgeable people saying this publicly--UN weapons inspectors, Joe Wilson and others-- but these so-called journalists NEVER added "but his critics say" Bush is full of shit--even with nameable public sources available--and they never do it to anybody else who serves the agenda of Rotters' or AP's corporate/war profiteer bosses.
They don't want you to know that it's their bosses' opinion and/or that it is part of a CIA 'narrative' and/or that this is a local fascist who is spouting a USAID-written "talking point" or a local fascist with a vendetta because his government gravy train is threatened. This is cloak and dagger journalism. It's almost as if they are meeting people in bars or back alleys to "get the word." "His critics say...". Or they are referring to NO ONE AT ALL.
If there are "critics," WHY DON'T THEY QUOTE THEM?
The New York Slimes & brethren--the snotty, high-brow 'news' rags--use a different technique of, say, getting the CIA fax and a list of reliable sources (corporate "think tank" scumbags, academics on the payroll), and then calling them to get the quotes that fit the "talking point." LOL! I don't think this is far from the truth.
The cheaper outfits like Rotters and the Associated Pukes use "his critics say...".
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One other thing that you will NEVER READ from these corporate propagandists that call themselves 'journalists' is this:
"U.S. soldiers are currently hunting for the WMDs that rightwing corporatist Bush says will be found in Iraq."
Ever see that? Nope. But consider Rotters, above:
"In the May 7 vote, Ecuadoreans will endorse or reject 10 proposals socialist Correa says will modernize the Andean nation but critics fear are intended to strengthen his power and curb judicial independence.
They NEVER do this to rightwingers. NEVER! They are using "socialist" as an epithet and substitute for the word "President." Read it as it should have been written and understand the technique:
"In the May 7 vote, Ecuadoreans will endorse or reject 10 proposals President Correa says will modernize the Andean nation but CIA agents we met in a back alley behind the U.S. embassy fear are intended to strengthen his power and curb judicial independence. (Sorry, off-point, but I couldn't resist.)
"Socialist Correa"--as if he were some Molotov cocktail thrower or FARC guerrilla or believer in universal free medical care. NOT the PRESIDENT of the goddamn country with a 60% to 70% approval rating! NOT the PRESIDENT of Ecuador, with massive support, elected to speak and act for all Ecuadorans. NOT the official, elected, lawful, sovereign PRESIDENT of the country. "...socialist Correa...".
This subliminal technique for manipulating reader reaction is foul. It stinks as bad as their "sources" for "critics fear...," "some Ecuadorans fear..." and "his critics say...". The bar or back alley or fax machine they got this crap from will forever remain unknown, the "source" forever anonymous.
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(Edited for typo.)
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