Do I have a secret admirer among the editors at Reuters? I mean even
after delivering them quality smack-bottom sessions such as
this one and
this one?1
A bad case of tough love maybe?
Consider this bit of news published by Elmundo Internacional, and emailed by an "anonymous tipster" from Spain (Everybody please say "Thank you anonymous Spaniard tipster", thank you):
Photo ©Reuters. Really. I wasn't me wot done it, it was Reuters wot done it. No kidding, no photoshopping, no frogmanizing.
"En la instantánea, tomada durante la reciente visita del presidente Hugo Chávez a Brasil, aparece el mandatario venezolano con dos círculos negros en la cabeza, que le asemejan a Mickey Mouse.
"La transnacional de noticias emite una fotografía cuya composición es un intento de burlarse de la imagen del presidente Chávez", apuntó el canal Radio Mundial. (...) Las afirmaciones del sitio de Internet progubermantal aporrea.org van un poco más lejos. "¿Terrorismo mediático?", se pregunta la página web (...)
"La intencionalidad de Reuters es obvia. La agencia ha sido acusada en el pasado por conocidos investigadores (...) de asistir diariamente a reuniones en el Pentágono, desde donde se diseña la agenda informativa mundial", agrega. (...)
En resumen, según los medios 'chavistas' la foto es un plan del Imperio estadounidense, la CIA y los accionistas 'oligarcas' de Reuters -familia Thomson y Rupert Murdoch, propietario de News Corp- para debilitar la imagen de Chávez.
The shreds of my long gone Spanish skills2 make me understand that some Chavez-friendly media see this photographic prank as a deliberate attempt to ridicule El Presidente (some even go as far as calling it media terrorism), as part of a plot involving the U.S. empire (Imperialists?), the malevolent CIA and their Murdoch owned Reuters poodle. Poor Reuters, even their natural friends distrust them by now.
I would actually argue that this does more to hurt Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney (media terrorism orchestrated by the Cuban secret policia and a vindicative Bugs Bunny?), but that's just me.
So. Anyway. I once shared a room with a very high-ranking CIA official3, but he was a man4 so this definitely can't be some sort of publicly expressed private allusion as an expression of gratitude for a past agreeable moment between consenting adults longing for more, hey, what are you up to you've got my number please call me type thing.
If you get my meaning, wink-wink, nod-nod, say no more.
In any case, if that is not a tribute to my own humble yet resolved anti-Socialist propaganda labor of love5, then I don't know what is.
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