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There’s an interesting new article on a British Journalism website about our La Nacion newspaper here in Costa Rica which might be of interest to you ….
As many of you will recall, La Nacion did an awesome job exposing the property tax evasion by various government officials, including the now ex-Chief of the Tax Department.
Like most people, I try to be as selective as possible with what I read but I rarely see other “respected” newspapers digging up the same kind of sensitive stories that La Nacion regularly does…
See the the article here:
[size=200]Investigative data journalism at Costa Rica’s La Nación[/size]
A look at the work of the investigative unit at Costa Rica’s La Nación, which has uncovered international corruption including cases that sent two former presidents to jail
Wow!
thats refreshing, most Western news agencies are on auto-pilot and take orders from Big Biz/Big Govt…..Nice to see…I know they try to do this in the East, but Russia as an example, they often dont live long….
One has to weed and discern through alternative media and pseudo-alternative..
[quote=”camby”]Wow!
thats refreshing, most Western news agencies are on auto-pilot and take orders from Big Biz/Big Govt…..Nice to see…I know they try to do this in the East, but Russia as an example, they often dont live long….
One has to weed and discern through alternative media and pseudo-alternative..[/quote]
Scott
this is very interesting because I also came across this article and had a conference call with 2 of my attornies regarding legalities of this very thing.
costa rica as a general rule is very new to the digital world and is quickly embracing this type of delivery.
problem is they leave themselves very open to this type of abuse. look at the power that this already yielded to a private new organization which in my opinion is already powerful enough in this country.
can you imagine.. the exploitation
they hire programmers to scrape personal information from public sites which goverment leaves wide open.
heck.. Scott I can scrape info on you and get all your immigration information from the major goverment sites.
what houses you own.
get information on S.A.s using your cedula number.
can you see where this could lead to.registry information.
this could lead to identity theft which is already rampant in the States.
La Nacion can use this to further whatever agenda they feel is necessary
most recently was the goverment officials that resigned because of the taxes on property.
very grey area here.
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