How to buy an election from a major television channel
This Guardian story accuses the (allegedly) leading candidate (Nieto) in Mexico's election of outright buying favorable coverage. Of course, no such thing could ever happen here in the good ol' USA. Or could it?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/08/mexico-presidential-candidate-media-televisa
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Mexico's leftwing presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has called on Enrique Peña Nieto, the current favourite to win the election on 1 July, to come clean about the alleged purchase of favourable coverage on Mexico's biggest television network.
His comments came a day after the Guardian published documents implicating the Televisa network in the sale of news and entertainment content to promote Peña Nieto's national profile when he was the governor of Mexico state and preparing his presidential bid.
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Several leading Mexican newspapers and radio shows led on the Guardian report in their Friday editions, and the story has become a trending topic on Twitter in the country. The allegations are particularly sensitive in the current electoral climate, in which student demonstrators accusing Televisa of favouring Peña Nieto have turned alleged media bias into a central issue of the campaign.
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According to the former employee, Laura Barranco, a news anchor at the channel, Carlos Loret de Mola, who has been a vocal defender of Televisa in recent weeks, wrote: "Everything, absolutely everything, is true."
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Also coverage in Spanish in La Jornada:
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2012/06/09/10525925-revision-sugiere-que-son-autenticos-archivos-pena-televisa-the-guardian
