Ecuador’s year-old media law stifles in-depth reporting
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa generated little actual news during a two-day trip to Chile last month. So Ecuador’s four main newspapers did the obvious: They published short wire service dispatches about his visit.
Correa was not satisfied. In a televised speech he accused the newspapers of violating the human rights of Ecuadorans by failing to provide them with important information about his trip to Santiago, where he met with Chile’s president and received an honorary university degree. A few years ago editors might have shrugged it off as just another one of Correa’s rants against the media. But that was then.
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