Media Misreporting

The land and environmental defense struggles, and human rights and justice struggles that Rights Action supports in Guatemala and Honduras confront the interests, power and wealth of other governments (mainly the U.S. and Canada) and a host of international companies, banks and investors.

These struggles also confront the role of the mainstream media in the U.S. and Canada, and how these issues are reported on, if ever, or outright ignored.

2002 July 10 - “Truth, Lies & Omissions About Iraq in the Canadian Media”, by G. Russell

2002 December 18 - “Coffin Building Project: The Self-serving Inevitability of Our War in Iraq”, by G. Russell

2003 September 8 - “We The Good, They The Bad, in CBC’s ‘war on terrorism’ Reporting”, Letter to CBC radio by G. Russell

2004 November 9 - “CBC factors out role of the U.S. and western allies in Guatemala’s horror story”, Letter to The Current by G. Russell

2004 November 9 - Letter to The Current, Canadian Broadcast Corporation from G. Russell

2006 February 7 - Public Letter to the Toronto Star Concerning it’s Reporting on Haiti by G. Russell

2006 February 7 - “Toronto Star covers up role of U.S. and Canada in regime change coup against Haitian President Aristide”, by G. Russell

2006 May 5 - Goldcorp Inc. Holds Annual Shareholders Meeting in Toronto; Letter to the CBC by G. Russell

2006 May 14 - Dissecting Toronto Star cover-up of Canada’s complicity in Haiti’s on-going impunity, repression, poverty and suffering

2006 July 30 - Dissecting Wall Street Journal report on Skye Resources mining operation in Guatemala

2008 January 9 - Anatomy of a Misleading Globe & Mail Article About Guatemala, by G. Russell

2008 April 7 - “Letter to Toronto Star: The banality of billionaires, poverty & extreme inequality”, by G. Russell

2008 November 4 - “Letter to Globe & Mail: What Margaret Wente Said was Racist, Harmful and False”, by G. Russell

2009 August 2 - “Response to CBC Interview with Peter Kent, Canadian Minister for Global Affairs, About Canada’s Complicit Role in Honduras”, by G. Russell

2011 September 10 - “Dissecting NYT Report about ‘Genocidal General’ Poised to Win (undemocratic) Elections in Guatemala”, by G. Russell

2011 December 1 - “Dissecting CBC Radio ( The Current) Potato-head Coverage of Honduran Regime & Canadian Government & Corporate Interests”, by G. Russell

2012 June 4 - “Dissecting a This American life report about ‘What Happened At Dos Erres’ In Guatemala”, by G. Russell

2012 September 11 - “Dissecting CBC (As it Happens) report on “charter cities” in militarized Honduras”, by G. Russell

2013 February 22 - CBC (The Current) debate, with Grahame Russell & Karen Spring: Canadian Investments in Tourism & “Charter Cities” in Honduras

2015 March 1 - Manipulated CBC (As it Happens) Reporting on Latin America and Venezuela; Letter by G. Russell

2015 March 23 - “Moving and Misleading CBC (The Current) Report on Forced Migrancy, Women and Sexual Violence”, by G. Russell

2015 April 14 - “CBC’s ‘End of a Dead-end Road’ Commentary on Death of Eduardo Galeano”, by G. Russell

2015 June 22 - “NYT report misrepresents U.S. actions, past and present, in Guatemala as protests for justice and reform continue”, by G. Russell

2015 October 14 - “‘Refugees At Our Door’ and NYT denial of our role in their forced exile”, by G. Russell

2017 January 8 - “Surprising CBC commentary: President Obama’s hypocritical outrage over Russia’s alleged interference in elections”, by G. Russell

2017 February 1 - “Alternative media series: The real impacts of Canadian government & corporate policies internationally”, by G. Russell

2018 March 27 - “Bloomberg News media manipulations: ‘Guatemala Mines a Mother Lode of Trouble’”, by J. Moore

2018 October 27 - “CBC does not report on how Canada contributes to causes of why refugees (CBC’s ‘ragtag group of migrants’) flee Honduras”, by G. Russell

2018 November 6 - “Fact checking the Globe & Mail’s refugee caravan ‘fact check’”, by G. Russell

2019 January 13 - “Refugee caravans flee Honduras and Guatemala: NYT won’t report on underlying issues”, by G. Russell

2019 January 25 - “Not a ‘Venezuelan’ crisis: Letter to the Globe & Mail”, by G. Russell

2019 February 4 - “CBC (The Sunday Report) delves into role of U.S., whitewashes role of Canada in helping cause why Central Americans flee”, by G. Russell

2019 February 27 - “Venezuela Coverage Takes Us Back to Golden Age of Lying About Latin America”, by M. Cook

2019 March 28 - “BBC ignores role of “international community” helping create forced migrancy and refugee flight”, by G. Russell

2019 July 24 - “Globe & Mail censors how Canada ‘[partners] with authoritarian regimes’ in Latin America”, by G. Russell

2019 July 24 - “New Yorker reports on ‘safe-third-countries’ debate, ignores elephant in the room”, by G. Russell

2019 July 24 - “The Atlantic publishes ‘Photos from the Mexico-Guatemala Border’, ignores elephant in the room”, by G. Russell

2021 October 5 - “Dear CBC, Haiti is not a “failed state”. Your reporting on Haiti is “failed journalism”, Article by G. Russell

2022 September 19 - Rights Action Public Service: Correcting deceitful New York Times article about U.S. Government Promoting Democracy in Central America, By G. Russell

2023 March 29 - “Even Op-Ed Writers Under Fire in Guatemala”, El Faro News Article by R. Gressier and N. Rauda