J-Student: Venez Media Unethical Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2002
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Education Minister Aristobulo Isturiz’ daughter Rosarys has written an open letter to El Nuevo Pais director Patricia Poleo and Globovision TV talk show presenter Jose Domingo Blanco chiding them for spreading "the news" that her father had purchased a $750,000 luxury yacht. Rosalys Isturiz quotes none other than Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez in an item he wrote in 1995 questioning the ethics of journalism in the electronic age ... especially the “vicious use of quotation marks” to cover up false statements and anonymous sources, such “top government official” or “observers.” MORE
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