Last Sunday, Chile held presidential elections in which a communist candidate won.<\/p>\n
The candidate in question is named Jeannette Jara and is a member of the Communist Party of Chile (PC)<\/a>. Like other groups that share this totalitarian ideology, this party has been supporting the dictatorships of<\/strong> Cuba<\/a>, Venezuela<\/a>, Nicaragua<\/a>, China<\/a> and Vietnam<\/a>. This is one of the characteristics that allows us to distinguish what is merely left from the extreme left<\/strong>, just as support for anti-democratic regimes is one of the issues that allows us to distinguish the right from the extreme right.<\/p>\n However, for years now, there has been an ideological bias in journalism that whitewashes the far left<\/strong>, while indiscriminately and blatantly unfairly labeling conservative and even liberal parties and politicians as \"far-right\".<\/strong>. This bias is not limited to traditionally left-leaning media: other media outlets have ended up adopting the left's biased ideological framework when classifying politicians<\/strong>, as we are seeing these days and as we will surely see in the coming weeks leading up to the second round of the presidential elections in Chile, where Jara will face the conservative candidate Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kast, of the Republican Party<\/strong>, a politician who has not publicly supported any dictatorship. But that doesn't matter: he's right-wing, and that's enough.<\/p>\n Media outlets such as El Mundo<\/a>, El Pa\u00eds<\/a>, Abc<\/a>, RTVE<\/a>, Europa Press<\/a>, Cadena SER<\/a> and Eldiario.es<\/a> have already begun whitewashing the far-left candidate: for them Jara is \"progressive\", \"leftist\" or \"left\", while Kast is \"far-right\" or \"ultra-conservative.\"<\/strong> This is not new, unfortunately. As I already explained here three years ago, this bias is even used to whitewash communist dictatorships like China's<\/a>, which is almost never described in any media outlet as \"far-left,\" while it is very common to see \"far-right\" labels applied to democratic leaders like Giorgia Meloni or Javier Milei<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The problem with these manipulations is that they have increasingly short legs in a society where more and more people get their news from social media. With this bias, all some media outlets are doing is throwing their credibility away.<\/strong> Ultimately, what trust can you have in a media outlet that manipulates information like this against a democratic politician like Kast, while whitewashing a communist like Jara? Communism has been<\/strong> sowing the world with dictatorships<\/a> and corpses for over a century<\/a>. It is the totalitarian movement that killed the most people in the 20th century. Its dictatorships still oppress a fifth of the human population. And there are still media outlets that have the nerve to whitewash this totalitarian ideology.<\/strong><\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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