Ingrid Betancourt and the media
24 000 people die of hunger every day *, but hopefully Ingrid Betancourt was released.
The world through the media? 
Of course it has to please his family, but ... Other families are much more serious dramas, and we speak the half of the newspaper TV.
Fortunately, I do not watch TV, but I did not escaped the net.
Without wishing to sound cruel, I do not know who is Ingrid Betancourt, and I'm not interested. I am sure that there were far more important information today, but that would have less audience ...
* I've found 24,000 people dying of starvation every day on different sites, but I do not vouch for that figure. I even hope that it is wrong, with three zeros too. 
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INGRID BETANCOURT: media-COMMERCIAL SUCCESS
The release of Ms Betancourt is in itself a fact anecdotal and really does the person himself and his entourage. The rest is pure media hype of the population. This story would never have concerned the millions of television lobotomized but only the people who were in the family, friends, family policies.
This is not the funeral of Hugo here, just an epic pseudo-media-politics, or simply mundane. A soap opera created by vanity press.
The media have hijacked millions of people they have artificially captivated with their usual methods of manipulation of the spirits. After the great onslaught of the masses, it will be whining that will encourage the softener to sell a box describing the six years of captivity of Betancourt, paved published in hundreds of thousands or even millions.
In short, an excellent shot editing that small Machiavellis of the press had to prepare for a long time. His release was to be expected, commercially speaking, for years. Plus his captivity lasted, took over the business value. The wine has aged well for six years, it will be better in "product-cultural" star supermarkets.
It is the media and the media that only with patience and perversity (sprinkled with a healthy dose of serious consideration) made into the skull that was willing truths unilateral, uniform, unambiguous and enticing. They managed to believe millions of people who were initially completely foreign to this case that Ms. Betancourt was their cousin, their classmate, their next-door neighbor.
Under the pretext of humanism and "creating news" or "decision events" monopolize a fact, mediate the global level to better sensitivities, opinions and views eventually converge to a single horizon: the chosen by them, the media.
Inevitably seller.
Today Betancourt, who's next in future become an excuse for "media-marketing"?
The release of Ms Betancourt is a great relief, I do not dispute. But only for people involved: hostages, families, friends. Not for Marcel Dupont believer with a mission dupontesque largely orchestrated by power-hungry media, current events to their advantage, in view of the world one way ...
I have no hatred, just a healthy rage against the magnates media manipulation that the art of creating events to the extent of their interest mercantilo-conceited.
I refuse to lobotomize by a group of so-called journalists in the pay-humanist merchants laundry. Ms. Betancourt is a media invention for profit in the broadest sense: to turn the machine "news".
The shameless exploitation of the case Betancourt for the benefit of the people docile to bleat, to distract their attention, make them think about something other than the basics. Journalists are scavengers ready to manipulation to feel there, taking advantage of the most common "flattering" to ennoble the profession with it.
Some argue that it is public opinion that freed the hostages ...
Wrong!
And if it were true, is it reason enough to hijack millions of minds for strictly private, artificially mounted affair of state?
The hostage-taking is causing a police matter and not political. It is the media that made this story a national priority. It is they who have "requisitioned" public opinion, created the event for journalistic purposes. In short, all this is nothing but a stunt perfectly arbitrary, carefully targeted to serve the interests of a corporation. The French dupes, poor sheep conditioned by the media, welcome the release of which six years ago was still a complete stranger ... Vast masquerade! We cry in the cottages for the social history while the bum on the corner not entitled to any media attention, yet he who is taken hostage for Economic, 10, 15, 20 by the company perfectly indifferent to his fate. Obviously, Dede Lacloche the SDF in the neighborhood who made the handle out of the stores is less seller, less romantic, less fashionable as Ingrid Betancourt, held hostage by "quality, tenure of the" thought of reference " face very photogenic and women necessarily "courageous."
In short, is a hostage Betancourt telegenic likely to be received with the red carpet.
The media, perverse, Manichaeans, selective, have insidiously move Betancourt to a hero simply because of its status as a hostage. In six years of skillful maneuvers journalistic almost subliminal, the fact is established in the mind.
When will the Legion of Honor for Betancourt?
(Make no mistake about it in my speech: there is no question here of challenging the legitimacy of the liberation of the hostages but to denounce the media hostage, subtle as this, millions minds incapable of criticism to better exploit. If the goal is laudable, the process is unfair, undemocratic, immoral and even permanently. Indeed it is argued wisely that without the media, the captive would be released soon . The perverse effect of media coverage of this case is that the more we talked about the hostage, he took over the value in the hands of his captors ...)
The case Betancourt is a pure media product. Leave me at least the freedom not to think by the standards of this "emotional release".
I am a wit, that is a lion. And especially not a donkey, let alone a sheep.
Raphael Izarra of Zechariah
PS
My critics call the men of evil terrorists of FARC ... Objectively they are no more terrorists than the Resistance during the Second World War, also considered as such at the time by Vichy. The men of the FARC, even if they are criminals, have their reasons for doing so. While I disagree with their methods, they have their truth and I can understand that one can think and act against the tide of civilized masses. The states themselves use the most despicable criminal methods to maintain their legitimacy off and no one seems offended by the thing. The proliferation of possession of nuclear weapons is the best example.
It describes the hostage takers as terrorists. Behind the word TERRORIST reality is not always all black or all white.
In short, the views of my opponents is not theirs but he instilled by the media.
The press asked the French people to feel sorry for the fate of Betancourt and the people won in advance by the discourse of "anti FARC friendly journalists" bleat in unison! The media would have asked to raise national awareness for the homeless Dede Lacloche the corner, now the public does not swear by Dede Lacloche ...
From the time when the population as a whole follows the rut feelings media, more room for critical thinking! The next stage of "civic emotion" is to buy the book now-witness to the "very brave" and especially telegenic ex-captive ...
Getting back to Dede Lacloche seems decidedly not related to any of these beautiful souls set on the movements of the stick media serving sweet music well, certainly it is not photogenic, of course it stinks, to be sure he stammers when he drank and that the sleeve is at the corner of your streets. No camera does close-ups on his ruddy face and yet it is there every day, always hostage to our economic terrorism particularly unfair, he and thousands of others. Dede is in range of camera and yet does not bother to make a scoop on him. Ms. Betancourt was a real media value, not the bum on the corner with loneliness, suffering, distress are sometimes worse and longer lasting than those endured by "the famous hostage" during his captivity.
It is the media who chose to make your excitement about the day: they are not stupid media they prefer to use the Betancourt instead of Dede is much more unifying.
And while the cameras focused on Betancourt to serve the people (by artificially happy-found freedom of a pseudo-knowledge) the dose of "news" sweet to the glory of the "national hero" during that time Dede Lacloche is still no media-speak. Yet it is before our eyes but it has no value in terms of image. Just right for powering shabbily logs sold by the homeless street.
Nice work gentlemen of the press! An entire people lobotomized in six years of scholarly maneuvers subliminal ...
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(Really funny and pathetic, the drift continues on BLOGS: the former captive is now accommodated in various sauces, "Betancourt images", "Betancourt's reunion", "Betancourt Family", "Betancourt with Sarkozy" and so on.
When I said that the case was a national cause Betancourt created from scratch by the media ...
We expect soon, "Betancourt and her recipes", "Betancourt the Loft", "Betancourt and her beauty secrets "...)
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Media monopolize the honor of having free the hostage.
As some people think it is in fact very likely that it would have been released since lontgtemps if we had left the diplomatic forces acting in the shadows.
The illusion media works great: everyone thinks that the release of the captive is put on the account of journalists. Silence is golden they say. I am convinced that the diplomatic silence would have been more effective than the roar of the press.
Of course, everything is orchestrated so as to give the impression that it is the media trumpets that made Betancourt's freedom: TV shows on TV shows, red carpets and presidential smiles are there to monitor.
The media only delayed release but who cares, it works on the model of illusory and they decreed that the sun will rise at a certain time under their own will and miracle, the sun actually rises at the time indicated by the media ...
Specious conclusion of fools: it is through the media that the sun shines!
Raphael Izarra of Zechariah
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I had not thought about the book that will tell his captivity, you're right!
Thank you for sharing your ticket, even as you have said in your comments, a simple link would have been enough!