Comments on: Chavez and RCTV: Tilting the Balance Against the “Bad Guy” http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/chavez-and-rctv-tilting-the-balance-against-the-bad-guy/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: richard young http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/chavez-and-rctv-tilting-the-balance-against-the-bad-guy/#comment-1578 richard young Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:11:42 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/chavez-and-rctv-tilting-the-balance-against-the-bad-guy/#comment-1578 Thanks for this excellent article, which I hope will be read by many heretofore misinformed (north) Americans. As a daily reader (in Spanish) of internet versions of anti-Chavez Venezuelan media outlets such as El Universal and El National, it is endlessly frustrating to read US media reports parroting our State Department's propaganda that there is no freedom of the press in Venezuela. Anyone who cares to learn the facts need only to take a few minutes on the internet to discern the overwhelmingly anti-Chavez content of essentially all of the Venezuelan print media, freely expressed today and every day since Chavez was first elected President. This is not debatable; read it for yourself and make up your own mind (assuming you have one). Thanks for this excellent article, which I hope will be read by many heretofore misinformed (north) Americans. As a daily reader (in Spanish) of internet versions of anti-Chavez Venezuelan media outlets such as El Universal and El National, it is endlessly frustrating to read US media reports parroting our State Department’s propaganda that there is no freedom of the press in Venezuela. Anyone who cares to learn the facts need only to take a few minutes on the internet to discern the overwhelmingly anti-Chavez content of essentially all of the Venezuelan print media, freely expressed today and every day since Chavez was first elected President. This is not debatable; read it for yourself and make up your own mind (assuming you have one).

]]> By: Alberto http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/chavez-and-rctv-tilting-the-balance-against-the-bad-guy/#comment-1553 Alberto Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:03:45 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/chavez-and-rctv-tilting-the-balance-against-the-bad-guy/#comment-1553 It took more than 5 years after the coup against Chavez and the media war started by RCTV against Chavez for RCTV's license to be revoked. It took days for Phil Donahue's program to be cancelled after hard questions were asked about the policies and actions of the Bush administration. How long would a tv network last in the US if it so much questions George Bush's dreadful policies or the illegal invasion of Irak or be instrumental in instigating the ousting of George Bush? There have also been journalists in the US put in jail for openly critize George Bush and his administration. Then, think wire tappings, email tappings, and policies design to evesdrop on the American public. What would the US goverment do if a Venezuelan military intelligence agengy stages the ousting of a democratically elected president? Rest my case... It took more than 5 years after the coup against Chavez and the media war started by RCTV against Chavez for RCTV’s license to be revoked. It took days for Phil Donahue’s program to be cancelled after hard questions were asked about the policies and actions of the Bush administration. How long would a tv network last in the US if it so much questions George Bush’s dreadful policies or the illegal invasion of Irak or be instrumental in instigating the ousting of George Bush?
There have also been journalists in the US put in jail for openly critize George Bush and his administration. Then, think wire tappings, email tappings, and policies design to evesdrop on the American public.
What would the US goverment do if a Venezuelan military intelligence agengy stages the ousting of a democratically elected president?

Rest my case…

]]> By: Jeremy Wells http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/chavez-and-rctv-tilting-the-balance-against-the-bad-guy/#comment-1514 Jeremy Wells Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:56:58 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/chavez-and-rctv-tilting-the-balance-against-the-bad-guy/#comment-1514 A link to your excellent article was posted on the KPFK (Pacifica Radio) Listener Forum - General Discussion, as a "reply" to a post that wanted more information on the RCTV-Chavez affair. Here is the link to my "reply" post. http://www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=64&func=view&id=2901&catid=4&lang=en A link to your excellent article was posted on the KPFK (Pacifica Radio) Listener Forum – General Discussion, as a “reply” to a post that wanted more information
on the RCTV-Chavez affair. Here is the link to my “reply” post.

http://www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=64&func=view&id=2901&catid=4&lang=en

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