{"article":{"id":27532,"heading":"Media Imbalance Amid Escalated Violence in Colombian Civil War","author":"Colombia Report","created":"2003-01-30 16:29:54","modified":"2013-11-10 23:48:13","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:48:13","article":"<p>January 27, 2003  <br><br> Media Imbalance Amid Escalated Violence  <br><br> by Simon Helweg-Larsen  <br><br> As U.S. Special Forces arrived in early January to train Colombian troops in the protection of oil pipelines, violence by both leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries soared. The first few days of 2003 were violent, with guerrillas branching out into a new form of attack<\/p>\n","contact":"comments@colombiareport.org","link":"www.colombiareport.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Millions of people rely on mainstream news sources to educate them on world events and foreign policy. Therefore, if the only explanation of the Colombian crisis provided by these sources falls within consistently selective standards that omit more than half of all violence, and show guerrilla attacks and the arrival of U.S. troops with no contextual analysis, escalation of the conflict will continue unchallenged. ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/01\/27532.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}