Saturday, February 18, 2012

Diaspora Zionist media mogul uses his Spanish language network to fear monger and brainwash viewers with pro-war, neocon-Zionist propaganda

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Univision goes neoconservative

(Aljazeera) -- Charles Davis --
The Spanish-language TV network recently aired a saber-rattling report on Iran, focussing on its ties to Latin America.

Washington, DC - It's not often that Univision, the leading Spanish-language television network in the United States, releases its content in languages other than Spanish. It is, after all, a Spanish-language television network. But earlier this month the broadcaster did something out of the ordinary, screening an English version of a recent report on Iran that's received a rapturous reception from neoconservatives in Washington. And it at least appears to have done so at the behest of its hawkish new fan club.

Why would a network best known for sappy telenovelas shift to producing sloppy war propaganda - and English-language propaganda at that? Perhaps, as is usually the case with the corporate press, Univision's bias and peculiar programming choices are best explained by simply noting who owns it: Israeli-American businessman Haim Saban, a self-described “one-issue guy” - that issue being Israel - who has been up front about purchasing media outlets to promote his own political views.

While those views are well-known if you look for them - hint: his public statements on Iran have invoked the Holocaust - they're also not hard to gather from the right-wing-infused investigative reports Univision has been airing since he took over.

Originally broadcast in Spanish late last year, the ever-so-subtly titled report that's driving the neoconservative community wild - “La Amenaza Iraní”, or “The Iranian Threat” - received an unusual February 8 screening, in English, at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank that counts former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, convicted felon Lewis “Scooter” Libby, as one of its top scholars. Focussed on Iran's relations with Latin America, the hour-long piece regurgitates all the pro-war right's by now familiar talking points about nefarious Islamists acting in concert with leftist Bolivarians to bring Terror to the US' doorstep, complete with all the ominous music and images of swarthy foreigners one would expect from a Hollywood movie or a corporate news report.

“Iran is looking for all the support that it can get to fight back against its fiercest enemies, Israel and the United States,” declares reporter Vytenis Didziulis in the opening minute of the piece. “Latin America, because of its geographical and cultural proximity, may present the most direct way for Iran to challenge - or even attack - the US.”...MORE...LINK

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