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December 23, 2003
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Dear Colleagues,
In yesterday's report, "Christmas Comes Early to Caracas," we mentioned that
we had sent a series of questions to British freelance correspondent Phil
Gunson about alleged and undisclosed conflicts-of-interest involved in his
reporting from Venezuela.
Gunson's reports in the Miami Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, MSNBC
(online only), the Independent of London, and his statements made this month
on NPR and WAMU radio, have been among the most knowingly false and
simulating reports on The Strike That Wasn't in Venezuela during almost all
of December 2002.
We asked Gunson to clarify his relationship with partisan pro-coup political
consultant in Venezuela Eric Ekvall.
He wrote us back - his response is published uncensored and in full, as we
offered - but he would not answer that question.
A more serious question we asked him was about his sole uncorroborated
source last April 11th for his claim that sniper assassinations on that day
- a claim that was used to justify a coup d'etat - Eurídice Ledezma, a
pro-coup Venezuelan journalist and defender of Dictator-for-a-Day Pedro
Carmona whom she calls, simply, "Pedro."
We asked Gunson why he did not disclose what he has said to others and what
is reportedly alluded to in at least one book: That Ledezma was his "former
girlfriend." We don't care who his friends are, but every basic code of
journalist ethics requires that we disclose our relationships with the
people we report on. He did not do that in April, and now, again, in
December, he has refused the opportunity to come clean.
That quote - the foundation of a bloody coup in which 50 political activists
were assassinated, and some tortured, by the regime of Carmona - had
profound consequences for the history of América, and for human life. We
repeat our call upon freelance correspondent Phil Gunson to disclose the
true facts he should have disclosed last April. We believe that if he had
disclosed those facts at the time, bloodshed might have been avoided.
You can read our full report, the text of our Open Letter and Questions to
Phil Gunson, and the full uncensored texts of letters that Gunson and Ekvall
sent to us in recent days:
A Brit Reporter’s Undisclosed Venezuela Conflicts
Phil Gunson and Eric Ekvall Are Upset with Narco News
By Al Giordano
With Unabridged Letters from Phil Gunson and Eric Ekvall
http://www.narconews.com/
The language used by both Gunson and Ekvall in their letters to us is also
so similar as to be interesting, too. They're very upset with our questions.
There is other interesting background information in today's report,
important for historians, journalists, scholars and the work of many readers
in understanding the media's role in the Venezuelan conflicts.
continuing at our posts,
from somewhere in a country called América,
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