Finding the Truth of Chevron Texaco vs. Ecuador

The Chevron Texaco Ecuador lawsuite brings up so many interesting points for the news to capture. Who is right, who is wrong, who is violating contracts, ect., but these two videos clearly did not accurately show any answers to these questions. Instead, it was a finger pointing game done through the news to make personal assumptions seem like fact. CNN, while being the closest to a Murrow Standard newcast still managed to victimize those in Ecuador through leading questions to turn Chevron into the big bad monster who left a terrible oil foot print all over the country. Chevron's viral video did what most viral videos are designed to do...stir the pot. They generalized the people who filed the lawsuits, interviewed only people who had affiliation with Chevron and kept shining a false light on themselves that they were completely innocent. Like most issues in life, there are three sides to every story. In this case it's Chevron Texaco, those in Ecuador filing law suites, and the entire truth. These videos combined would have better portrayed Murrow's standard. There would have been two sides giving their opinions, both sides represented. Silvia, from Chevron, was represented in both videos. In CNN's she was quick to lose her cool at leading questions suggesting Chevron was already guilty, but Chevron portrayed her as mellow headed and quite pleasant and knowledgeable. This makes you wonder who this woman really is? Is she the big bad monster CNN is trying to make Chevron look like, or is she simply some victim caught in the web of lawsuits wrongfully place upon Chevron as the YouTube video suggested. I find it hard to believe Murrow would have been proud to see these videos as hard hitting report. In fact, I would bet he was tossing and turning in his grave to see and hear what people consider "reporting". Unfortunately today, with the Internet being widely accessible, I find it hard to find many reporting done from a completely biased viewpoint where all sides are represented equally. An example of how one sided issues can be represented is a local man doing a cyber campaign to persuade people to reelect a new governor. At www.beatbutch.com you can find one man's opinions about another man's actions as governor. Interesting choices to create a slam campaign by going viral. It reminds me of Chevron going viral with their video after they got wind of the investigation and reporting going on in Ecuador.