The tragedy of Hassan Nassar, Colombia's propaganda chief

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema November 26, 2020

Fewer than 150 people watched President Ivan Duque‘s COVID show on YouTube on Wednesday as the brainchild of his troubled propaganda chief Hassan Nassar, is failing.

Duque hired the former commentator of government-friendly television network RCN Television in January in the hope Nassar could improve the president’s abysmal approval rating.

The president’s attempts to violently crack down on massive anti-government protests in late 2019 had sunk the far-right president’s approval rating to a record low.

Nassar had always been an outspoken supporter of the president’s political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe, and took the challenge, and failed miserably.

The coronavirus pandemic provided a unique opportunity to position Duque not as a mafia puppet, but a leader.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/the-tragedy-of-hassan-nassar-colombias-propaganda-chief/



Hassan Nassar, propaganda meister. It's all for an unworthy cause, of course.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Colombia's television news: pimping journalism with elegant propaganda

by Adriaan Alsema July 10, 2020

After independent media revealed evidence of ties between #Colombia’s ruling party and the mafia, the country’s corporate television networks were quick to cover this up.

The news programs of RCN Television and Caracol dedicated not even a second to the scandal that led opposition Senator Gustavo Petro to call President Ivan Duque‘s 2018 election “illegitimate.”

. . .

RCN omitted the evidence that the regional chief of far-right Democratic Center party had been celebrating Duque’s allegedly fraudulent 2018 election with the mafia.

Instead, the television network broadcast the president talking about “the swindlers of neo-Chavism who want to go out in our nations to sow chaos and ride on the discourse of chaos to their nefarious attempts to assume power.”

More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombias-television-news-pimping-journalism-with-elegant-propaganda/