It was bound to happen: twenty-one of academia’s leading minds got around to reading those magic laptop documents that totally prove the link between the FARC and Venezuela and realized that oops actually they don’t. Now they’ve written an open letter to the media begging reporters to “exercise a more critical eye in its reporting than has been demonstrated to date” before they get us into another stupid war.
It’s a nice initiative, but longtime readers might spot the fatal flaw in the professors’ strategy. That’s right, the journalists who cover Venezuela are lazy illiterates busy professionals, so good luck getting them to read your three-page footnoted letter, brainiacs! In the spirit of being helpful, I’ve created a diagram that might meet the Lilliputian attention spans rigorous schedules of our intended audience. That would be the magic laptop there at the intersection, any questions?
