Here’s some awesomeness: I just found out that the Miami Herald’s “ombudsman” is Edward Schumacher-Matos, a Colombian who is also the founding editor of the Spanish language version of the Wall Street Journal. You might think then that his critiques would read a little like some cranky old John Bircher evaluating Fox News and deciding they are way too nice to Nancy Pelosi, and you would be right. Only ha ha you’re not allowed to use the word “right” anymore.
Today he takes on the Miami Herald’s coverage of Colombia, and concludes that reporters are too hard on Alvaro Uribe, labeling him as “conservative” and his paramilitaries as “right wing” when in fact he is “center-left” and they are just criminals without political motivations and even mentioning any of these “labels” plays into Hugo Chavez’s hands so reporters should avoid such talk, pls.
Also, the Herald “relie[s] too much on union sources” when talking about union murders rather than reporting the official governments numbers which show far fewer politically motivated killings. And most human rights groups are leftists and reporters should be more “rigorous” lest they “mislead U.S. readers into making associations and drawing inferences, such as on human rights, that are correct.”
Ok actually he wrote the last word as “incorrect” but sometimes I have a little ombudsman in me too I guess.
