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Western Media Bias in Coverage of Contested Elections

Posted by smeddum on November 7, 2008

Western Media Bias in Coverage of Contested Elections

By Stephen Gowans

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While elections that bring populists and reformers to power are often contested as fraudulent by Western-backed opposition coalitions which receive favourable and substantial coverage in the Western media, when pro-foreign investment parties come to power in disputed elections, the event barely merits a footnote in the back pages of Western newspapers. Read the rest of this entry »

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