Chile's
Newspaper Duopoly Tightens Its Grip
Published in 2002
INTRODUCTION
1. Following are a few quotations from the referenced article (1) which illustrates a
typical Opus Dei pattern of
assuming (2)
control over entire countries. In this example the article refers to
Chile, South America.
2. The M+G+R Foundation has
made some commentaries which are deemed appropriate to clearly
illustrate the point being made.
3. At the end, the reader will be able to access the original news
report to confirm that the quotations were not out of context.
QUOTATIONS
"Juan Jaque, a Chilean newspaper
vendor for the past 20 years, gestures impatiently to a newspaper
hanging from his busy Santiago newsstand. 'We're sickening our minds
with this stuff,' he says."
"Jaque is referring to El Mercurio,
the country's oldest and most influential newspaper. "These are all a
waste of time," he continues in disgust, pointing to the array of
papers."
The M+G+R Foundation Comments: When even the newspaper
vendor - the proverbial "man or woman on the street" - is sour on the
newspaper he sells, we need to take stock of the situation (3).
"Most are owned by two groups that
have dominated Chile's print media for the past 30 years and that have
strong ties to the country's conservative business elite."
"Jaque is not the only one who feels
this way."
The M+G+R Foundation Comments:
Another Argentina (4)
in the making?
"Both were Chilean-owned and espoused
editorial views in support of Pinochet's free-market economic policies
and the social values of the
most conservative wing of the Catholic Church." (5)
"The latest business that tried to
challenge the top two -- IberoAmerican Media Holdings, owned by
Venezuela's Cisneros Group -- failed miserably. After two troubled
years in circulation, its daily newspaper El Metropolitano folded last
month, snuffing out hopes by Chileans like Jaque and Sunkel that it
would provide some fresh editorial input on the newsstands."
The M+G+R Foundation Comments:
They "discreetly" failed as the Escrivites would whisper to each other (6).
"Few details have emerged about El
Metropolitano's collapse. But its demise was widely mourned as a loss
for freedom of speech and democracy in Chile, where the traditional
papers are seen as mouthpieces of business and right-wing political
parties."
"The arrival of foreign companies
would bring a great benefit because there's an ideological monopoly
that is very conservative in the sense of being retrograde, Catholic,
economic neoliberalism mixed with
Opus Dei, basically everything that
the military government was," said Sunkel, referring to Pinochet's
iron-fisted rule between 1973 and 1990."
The M+G+R Foundation Comments:
Another typical manifestation of the Opus Dei, the Work of God. Work of
God? What "God"? The god of elitism, exclusivity and arrogance (7); certainly not Jesus
Christ.
"But a diverse collection of new
print and electronic outlets for writers of news and editorials is
enabling Chileans to hear other voices."
"'Opus Gay' is the latest
creation to hit the newsstands, poking fun at the ultra-conservative
wing of the Roman Catholic Church Opus Dei, which has many members in
Chile."
"While the small papers strive to
introduce dissident opinions, the job of challenging El Mercurio and
Copesa on business terms is left to bigger companies."
"Spanish media giant Grupo Prisa,
owners of El Pais newspaper, is interested in buying La Nacion,
according to Chilean media reports. Prisa confirmed to Reuters it aims
to expand in Latin America but would not comment on specific plans."
The M+G+R Foundation Comments:
El Pais is among the top three Spanish Newspapers. The first two are
Opus Dei controlled (8).
Nobody knows for sure if and when
Chile's newspaper empire will crumble but all agree on one thing, the
change will be welcome.
The M+G+R Foundation Comments:
They will not have long to wait as the wave against religious
fanaticism begins to sweep the world (9).
NOTES
(1) Chile's
Newspaper Duopoly Tightens Its Grip - By Louise Egan - Jul 11, 2002
- Published in Yahoo! News
(2) On Mind
Control - A Key
Ingredient to World Control
(3) The Opus Dei according
to
Maria del Carmen Tapia
(4) Connection between
Opus Dei
Members and Extreme Right Groups
(5) No one can
simultaneously
serve Mammon and also God - Exposing the Fallacy of the Opus Dei and
others
(6) Opus Dei by
D.
Ricardo de la Cierva Hoces
(7) Beyond the
Threshold, A
Life in Opus Dei - Mrs. Tapia's book
(8) The U.S.A. Based
Promise
Keepers and Opus Dei
(9) Terrorism is Not
the
Problem - The Problem is Religious Fanaticism
En Español: El poder del Opus Dei - Muy temporal - Las
razones
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