More Media Filth: Mexico’s Largest Television Network Sold Favorable Election Coverage to Top Politicians

The US Embassy in Mexico City in 2009 issued a series of cables indicating that Mexican political candidates, “are paying networks to provide them with television coverage” and that leading presidential contender Enrique Peña Nieto, in particular, “is paying media outlets under the table for favorable news coverage.”

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The documents were part of the release of thousands of leaked US State Department cables in August 2011 by the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks. They have taken on new significance in the wake of documents surfaced last week by Britain’s Guardian newspaper. On June 7, The Guardian published computer files provided to the newspaper by a “source who worked with [the Mexican media company] Televisa” that indicate that Mexico’s largest television network “sold favourable election coverage to top politicians,” particularly 2012 presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, in its Spanish initials).

Televisa issued an indignant denial and questioned the veracity of the London daily’s report. But the facts of The Guardian story are supported by documents sent by the US Embassy in Mexico City to other US government agencies in 2009.

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More Media Filth: Mexico’s Largest Television Network Sold Favorable Election Coverage to Top Politicians

More Media Filth: Mexico’s Largest Television Network Sold Favorable Election Coverage to Top Politicians

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