UPDATE OCT 1 10:23 EST - The BBC reports that President Correa said there would be "a deep cleansing of the national police", and that he would "not forgive nor forget" what had happened. The commander of Ecuador's police force has since resigned, a police spokesman said on Friday.
UPDATE 23:23 EST: BBC reports that: "Soldiers in Ecuador have rescued President Rafael Correa from a police hospital, appearing to end a day of violent unrest across the country."
Follow Susana Morán, a journalist in Ecuador is live tweeting (in Spanish) from Quito. And follow this piece for updates.
As of 5:00PM EST, the front-page of CNN looks like this:
If you look really closely, you will see that the second story on the left hand side under "Latest News" says, "Ecuador emergency amid 'coup attempts'"
It will link you to this story with the following video:
The main tab seen in the center is essentially a self ad for a report that CNN will be showing this weekend. I welcome someone to correct me, but shouldn't an attempted coup get a little more notice than it is getting?
Fox News is no better and only offers a small ticker:
The most important story is related to the brother-in-law of Bin Laden's bodyguard.
Since large media sources have failed, see below to find more resources to learn about this developing story
Video from RT America:
From Reuters:
News Links:
BBC
Al Jazeera
The Guardian
Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg
Reuters
Financial Times
Associated Press
Google News (hope this works)
Huffington Post
**Note** Other media sources have not included the story prominently like Fox News and CNN, but they are two of the largest online media sources
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How can a police force decide to stop defending the citizens it has sworn to protect? Now it even looks as if the police was used as puppets by politicians making their judgment even the matter worst. The police did not fully read and understood what the proposed law involved, and just decided to protest because they were lead to believe by some superior officers that the law was against their own benefit. The cities were in the midst of chaos that day, highly aggravated by how social media gossip escalated. No control was seen by myself on the street. The only police force I saw during the day were actually inviting people to join riots. A flaming tire was thrown to my car as I was trying to get home, luckily it barely missed my car.
There is a lot of coverage the international media could still do, because not all the facts have been shown. Sadly the international media has failed once more to show these news and create to the appropriate interest among readers.
The Spanish-language sites offered a little more in details and analysis, but there still was a dearth of multimedia on the web while this was going on. In the end, I ended up watching the video feeds direct from Ecuador on a streaming video site.
Thanks for this analysis, Mr. Murphy, and for bringing this news coverage issue to the fore.
To expand on your statement, I think that HP readers would benefit from a stronger global focus.
Thanks for your comments and thank you for the respect, but Tom is always fine!
"The United States deplores violence and lawlessness and we express our full support for President Rafael Correa, and the institutions of democratic government in that country. We urge all Ecuadorians to come together and to work within the framework of Ecuador?s democratic institutions to reach a rapid and peaceful restoration of order."
http://ht.ly/2MVJe
My question is, what role does media have in providing coverage for stories around the world? Should they only feature things that they think people want to read? If so, does that not perpetuate such desires? I, personally, would like to see slightly more significant coverage when a nation's president has been attacked.
(However, I admit my personal eye towards global affairs and recognize that not everyone is as interested as I)