Comments on: Bolivia in Dialogue: Between Hope and Civil War http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/brazil-in-dialogue-between-hope-and-civil-war/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marta Gusman http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/brazil-in-dialogue-between-hope-and-civil-war/#comment-29385 Marta Gusman Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:17:53 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3592#comment-29385 I second the prior comment. This article needs some serious balancing of left and right to be considered journalism. The world needs to also find out the atrocities against democracy that Mr. Morales is committing on a daily basis. Check how many of the once free press commentary TV shows or radio shows are still in the air. Read the proposed amended constitution and ask yourself: Are these articles written in such a clear concise way that can only be interpreted one way? Take a look at the slim paragraph on private property and ask yourself if you would worry about owning a small house anywhere in the country, is it safe? As much as many of us want to believe Mr. Morales will free our beloved country of the horrid racism and poverty that has enslaved us for centuries, he has proven to be nothing but naive at times, calculating others, certainly easily manipulated and poorly advised. Here is to neutral reporting and true journalism in the media. Always Bolivian. I second the prior comment. This article needs some serious balancing of left and right to be considered journalism. The world needs to also find out the atrocities against democracy that Mr. Morales is committing on a daily basis. Check how many of the once free press commentary TV shows or radio shows are still in the air. Read the proposed amended constitution and ask yourself: Are these articles written in such a clear concise way that can only be interpreted one way? Take a look at the slim paragraph on private property and ask yourself if you would worry about owning a small house anywhere in the country, is it safe? As much as many of us want to believe Mr. Morales will free our beloved country of the horrid racism and poverty that has enslaved us for centuries, he has proven to be nothing but naive at times, calculating others, certainly easily manipulated and poorly advised.
Here is to neutral reporting and true journalism in the media.
Always Bolivian.

]]> By: Auchinleck http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/brazil-in-dialogue-between-hope-and-civil-war/#comment-29364 Auchinleck Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:14:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3592#comment-29364 Your article has infrequent intersections with reality. As I began to read, I started with the thought of writing a corrective response as a fact-checking exercise, but I can see that would require a wholesale redaction - effectively re-writing your article. It is a beautiful flight of fantasy. Have you ever written NON-fiction ? The question isn't posed as an insult - it's a quandary as to why you even wrote it. Its' burdensome load of invented 'facts' and syrupy bias renders the article useless to anyone as an informative piece. _ Useless to all, that is, except to some lonely supplicant in desperate need of literary fiction to sustain their overripe need for a utopian fantasyland. Or, at least, a heroic sounding struggle for same. Your article has infrequent intersections with reality.

As I began to read, I started with the thought of writing a corrective response as a fact-checking exercise, but I can see that would require a wholesale redaction – effectively re-writing your article.

It is a beautiful flight of fantasy. Have you ever written NON-fiction ?
The question isn’t posed as an insult – it’s a quandary as to why you even wrote it.
Its’ burdensome load of invented ‘facts’ and syrupy bias renders the article useless to anyone as an informative piece.
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Useless to all, that is, except to some lonely supplicant in desperate need of literary fiction to sustain their overripe need for a utopian fantasyland. Or, at least, a heroic sounding struggle for same.

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