Through research, reporting, news and interviews, “Imaginary Lines” analyzes the coverage offered by the mass commercial media in the Global North as compared to how the same stories are reported from a perspective of the Global South. In today's program: The Media and Latin America segments looks at the criticism leveled by the Inter-American Press Association against Ecuador's National Communications Law, which seeks to democratize the country's media and promote free expression. The problem, in the words of one legislator, is that freedom of expression has been hijacked by market forces; While the Western media proclaims its independence the reality is that it is strongly biased in favor of big business. Imaginary Lines host Chris Spannos interviews economist Ian Hudson, author of "The Gatekeeper: 60 Years of Economics According to the New York Times, on corporate bias in private media, and how it plays out in the case of the US' "newspaper of record". teleSUR
