The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Media: Ayacucho and Lima
Media owners have changed little compared to the corrupt period of the nineties. They are not inclined toward human rights issues, and their orientation has been toward the progressive silencing of the CVR's conclusions. This rejection by media owners is reinforced by the opposition to the CVR from most of the political class. Above all, politicians with power have been indifferent, if not hostile, to the Commission's Report. Both media owners and politicians have relied on a relative civic indifference toward human rights issues. Many people prefer to forget rather than remember a painful past. For this reason, the exercise of memory is linked, in certain media outlets, to the interests of NGOs.