Daily Archives: October 9, 2023

2023-10-09: News Headlines

Camila Escalante (2023-10-09). NPR Falsely Claims Its Reporter Is the Only One To Visit Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Camila Escalante — Oct 6, 2023 | NPR (9/10/23) describes correspondent Eyder Peralta as "the first foreign journalist to make it into the country in more than a year," which would come as a surprise to numerous independent foreign journalists. | NPR began its report "A Rare Look Inside Locked-Down Nicaragua" (

presstv.ir (2023-10-09). Thousands of turtles start mass nesting on Nicaraguan beach. presstv.ir Over a thousand endangered sea turtles lay their eggs en masse at La Flor beach in San Juan del Sur, on Nicaragua's Pacific coast south of Managua.

Camila Escalante, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-10-08). NPR Falsely Claims Its Reporter Is The Only One To Visit Nicaragua. popularresistance.org NPR began its report "A Rare Look Inside Locked-Down Nicaragua" (9/10/23) with the demonstrably false claim that Nicaragua has "kept all foreign journalists out for more than a year." This led into a harrowing story of how its reporter arrived in Nicaragua…and reported without incident. | In 2023 alone, numerous foreign journalists from press outlets from all parts of the world have reported from Nicaragua. Broadcast outlets based in the United States, China, Russia, Iran and around Latin America have regularly filed reports in both English and Spanish. Independent reporters from the United States, Canada and B…

Editor (2023-10-08). NPR falsely claims its reporter is the only one to visit Nicaragua. mronline.org NPR began its report "A Rare Look Inside Locked-Down Nicaragua" (9/10/23) with the demonstrably false claim that Nicaragua has "kept all foreign journalists out for more than a year." This led into a harrowing story of how its reporter arrived in Nicaragua… and reported without incident.

presstv.ir (2023-10-08). Thousands of turtles start mass nesting on Nicaraguan beach. presstv.ir Over a thousand endangered sea turtles lay their eggs en masse at La Flor beach in San Juan del Sur, on Nicaragua's Pacific coast south of Managua.

teleSUR, odr, JDO (2023-10-08). Nicaragua condena agravamiento de conflicto israelí-palestino. telesurtv.net El Gobierno y el pueblo de la nación centroamericana expresan su solidaridad con las víctimas y las familias inocentes y demandan el reconocimiento del Estado Palestino.

Annelise Whitley (2023-10-08). Abandoning the Poor. tomdispatch.com On the island of Manhattan, where I live, skyscrapers multiply like metal weeds, a vertical invasion of seemingly unstoppable force. For more than a century, they have risen as symbols of wealth and the promise of progress for a city and a nation. In movies and TV shows, those buildings churn with activity, offices full of important people doing work of global significance. The effect is a feeling of economic vitality made real by the sheer scale of the buildings themselves. In stark contrast to those images of bustling productivity stands an outcropping of tall towers along the southern end of Manhattan's Centra…

presstv.ir (2023-10-09). Iran: Muslim nations must rush to aid Palestinians against Israel. presstv.ir Iran's Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian urges Muslim countries to rush to support the Palestinian people in their fight against Israel.

Roger Harris (2023-10-09). Humor in the Headlines Over China in Latin America. counterpunch.org In a break from its hysterical coverage of the existential threat posed by Donald Trump, the Washington Post — house organ of the Democratic National Committee — cautions us of the other menace, China. "When the leader of this impoverished Central American country visited Beijing in June," we are warned, "China laid out the warmest of welcomes." Apparently, in a grave threat to US national security, the president of Honduras attended a state banquet and actually ate Chinse food. What next for the country…

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