Interesting to compare Jon Snow on the coup in Chile with the current coup attempt in Venezuela Archived Message
Posted by Garry on February 5, 2019, 12:34 pm, in reply to "Chris Williamson Labour Mp smacks down JoSno & C4 news over Venezuela"
Here he is, all knowing, in that old interview with David Edwards of Medialens in 2001. I've copied in the bit relating to Chile: ... DE: "Well, I'll tell you what I would like to do is Pinochet. Greg Palast wrote in the Observer: 'The October 1970 plot against Chile's President-elect Salvador Allende, using CIA "sub-machine guns and ammo", was the direct result of a plea for action a month earlier by Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo, in two telephone calls to the company's former lawyer, President Richard Nixon.' I saw that in the Observer, but I didn't see it discussed anywhere else. Did you see that discussed anywhere else?" JS: "Well, I haven't seen that particular story discussed anywhere else, but we all +know+ that the Pinochet coup was a corporate American coup, and it's been detailed to bloody oblivion! If I read another story about ITT..." DE: "Did you cover it?" JS: "I was +involved+! I +went+! I +reported+ it!" DE: "I didn't see it in the mainstream press, apart from..." JS: "But it happened in +1970+... When was the coup in Chile? I can't even remember, it was so long ago!" DE: "But Pinochet was under house arrest for 18 months; I was amazed that I didn't see it discussed during that period." JS: "But it was discussed very extensively at the time of the coup." DE: "But not when he was under house arrest." JS: "Well what difference would that make?" DE: "Well isn't it incredibly important that Palast – he wrote this article basically saying that corporate America was behind it..." JS: "Well who is he?" DE: "He's a columnist with the Observer." JS: "But why should I be following up something he's written?" DE: "But as you say, it's widely known but not discussed." JS: "But it +is+ discussed. There's nobody who discusses Chile who doesn't know it's a corporate conspiracy. If there is, introduce me! ITT led the coup – that's a fact!" DE: "Did you discuss that much on Channel 4?" JS: "Endlessly! But there isn't anybody who's discussed Chile and not mentioned the corporate American involvement!" DE: "Have you heard of the British historian Mark Curtis?" JS: "I don't know." DE: "He argues that there's a pattern to post-1945 British and US interventions, basically defending profits and installing people like the Shah in Iran..." JS: "Oh this is bollocks! Total bollocks!" DE: "Do you think so?" JS: "Utter bollocks!" DE: "Really." JS: "I wish it was true, it would make life so much easier." DE: "Why do you think it's bollocks?" JS: "Because, I'm afraid there are many, many other factors. Do you know the role Winston Churchill played in disposing of... of the brilliant, democratically elected prime minister, 1952 – what the #### was his name? – the greatest Iranian politician of all time?" DE: "Mussadiq." JS: "Mussadiq, wonderful man – assassinated by Britain. Do you hear people discussing that? There's a conspiracy not to tell the truth about Iran!" DE: "Really?" JS: "Yes. I just don't travel with +any+ of this crap! What I travel with is lazy journalism." DE: "But isn't there a pattern to the lazy journalism?" JS: "No, unfortunately there is +not+! You mean, white, middle-class, middle-aged men, sitting around desks hatching plots which have nothing to do with the main interests of women and ethnic minorities? Well there is a bit of that, yes!" DE: "Can I talk about global warming briefly?" JS: "Global warming you can. I think you're +bananas+!" DE: "Do you?" JS: "You're completely off the clock!" (laughs) DE: "Oh really (laughs). Well that's fair enough, yeah." JS: "You should attend some of the editorial meetings in the mornings. You'd hear all this stuff flying." DE: "Obviously there was the failure of the Hague convention, and very little coverage of that in the States. Now..." JS: "I must say, this newspaper or news programme that you have in mind will be fantastically dull watching. So far it's going to be a few letters to a man from Pepsi-cola. It's going to be a discussion of a coup that occurred over 30 years ago. It's going to be a discussion of the murder of a politician in Iran in 1952. What about living in the present?" ------------- Well yes, what about the present in Venezuela! CONTINUES AT THE LINK Medialens
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Message Thread:
- Chris Williamson Labour Mp smacks down JoSno & C4 news over Venezuela - CJ February 4, 2019, 8:07 pm
- "One-eyed " Ch 4 says CW - how true, not forgetting forked tongue. nm - CJ February 4, 2019, 8:21 pm
- Thanks . Can't stand C4 news so don't usually watch. Snow gets worse & worse nm - MikeD February 4, 2019, 9:29 pm
- Re: Chris Williamson Labour Mp smacks down JoSno & C4 news over Venezuela - johnlilburne February 5, 2019, 1:42 am
- Snow has always been an establishment lackey - Sherwoodian February 5, 2019, 5:09 am
- That's more like it - Keith-264 February 5, 2019, 7:02 am
- Snow's inherent racism ... and South Africa's position - margo February 5, 2019, 11:02 am
- Snow is transparently dreadful. - Raskolnikov February 5, 2019, 11:07 am
- Interesting to compare Jon Snow on the coup in Chile with the current coup attempt in Venezuela - Garry February 5, 2019, 12:34 pm
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