Global Comment – Taking on the media: Mexico’s unprecedented protests against Televisa

I wrote about the unprecedented protests in Mexico against corporate media and some of the similarities between Mexican media’s modus operandi to Murdoch’s scandal in the UK.

While in the UK, a media scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s multinational corporation, News Corp, continues to unfold, investigators point at complicities and involvement of the highest echelons of the British government in phone hacking, spread of misleading or false information and manipulation of the public for electoral gain. Eight people with close ties to David Cameron’s administration stand accused of using media as a tool of deception towards the British people. The similarities between the way Mexican media utilized their power to exert influence over the electorate point to a certain modus operandi, replicated across borders, in which some corporate owned media appears to be part of a systematic effort to maintain and support certain political ideologies in places of power.