Chronicle Advertising Demonstrates Corporate Media's Loyalty

by danielsan

Wed, Oct 10, 2007 10:16AM

I was astounded to see a full three and a half pages of Chevron advertising in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle (10.9.07), particularly when only a two-column short from the NY Times brings any news from Burma, and this scant space fails to give much context or background to the continuing violence there. Yet Chevron, perhaps foremost amongst global interests propping up the military regime, has bright blue ads throughout the front page.

When information about Burma is lacking, Chevron's latest PR campaign is a telling substitute. Chevron/Texaco division Unocal is a well-documented collaborator with the Myanmar government, itself admitting forcing people off the land, the use of forced labor and other abuses in construction of the Yadana gas project, providing security Unocal workers and equipment, and imprisonment, torture, and/or execution by the army of anyone opposing such actions.

The Chronicle’s responsibility to investigate the ties between Unocal and the military Junta are even greater since Chevron’s headquarters are local to the bay area. Placing their big bright ads right next to Aung San Suu Kyi’s photo is nothing less than shameful.

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§SC Sentinel Demonstrates Loyalty to Pesticide Corporation

by epiphyas postvittana

Wed, Oct 10, 2007 10:41AM

According to an FRSC interview with David Dilworth, executive director of Helping Our Peninsula's Environment (HOPE), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accidentally released the name of an "inert" ingredient in Suterra's Checkmate pesticide to the SC Sentinel. The Sentinel published the "inert" ingredient in an article on September 29, but then quickly removed the name of the ingredient from their website after Suterra complained the ingredient was "inert" and therefore a "trade secret"

Suterra's Checkmate pesticide, the chemical being sprayed all over Monterey County, contains POLYMETHYLENE POLYPHENYL ISOCYANATE. There are plans for spraying Santa Cruz County next.

The Sentinel cares more about protecting corporations and their trade secrets than they do about providing the truth to their readers.

FRSC: Apple Moth Spraying in Santa Cruz interview with David Dilworth
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/09/18453074.php

HOPE Sues CDFA to Halt Aerial Spraying of Pesticide on Peninsula Cities
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/02/18451420.php

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