Reply #55: No doubt you remember BBC, Guardian journalist Greg Palast had been warning people [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

BEFORE this coup that it was his total conviction Hugo Chavez was going to be assassinated. He mentioned it multiple times.

I wonder if that may have contributed to the decision by the Irish filmmakers to get down there and make that documentary while there was still time! Sure glad they undertook it, because now, no matter how much noise is made by the right-wing non-readers, it all comes to nothing once anyone actually watches the evidence as it is revealed, since it's all on by god FILM.

Too many names, too many faces, too many facts stand in the way. All the right-wing can do is crowd the airwaves here, and newspapers with their crafted faux stories, hoping to snag the witless among us, so useful in clamoring for active aggression against designated "enemies."

It's puzzling seeing them all trying so hard to bury the facts of this case in their repetitive absurd lies, conjectures, and wild leaps of "logic." We all know who's going to win, at any rate, in the end, as the truth WILL eventually prevail.

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A few important points from a good article:

Another interesting fact is that our corporate media and distinguished Members of Congress have neglected to mention that on April of 2007 the government of Peru did not renew the broadcasting licenses of two TV stations and three radio stations for breaking their Radio and Television laws. It is obvious that Venezuela continues to be a target.
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On the Job at RCTV-Eyewitness, Andres Izarra Speaks

If any doubts remain as to RCTV's complicity in this coup, the voice of one of its own producers should lay them all to rest. Andres Izarra had worked as the assignment editor in charge of Latin America for CNN before being hired by RCTV as news production manager for Venezuela's highest ranked newscast, El Observador. Izarra says, quite clearly, "We were told no pro-Chavez material was to be screened". Later, RCTV officials would maintain that they could not film pro-Bolivarian demonstrations for security reasons. Even if that were true, Izarra notes, footage of these demonstrations was available from sources such as CNN. RCTV also continued broadcasting reports that President Chavez had willfully resigned and left the country, even though Izarra notes that they were receiving news to the contrary, and that Mexico, Argentina, and France had all issued statements condemning the coup and refusing to recognize the new government. Conversely, the United States welcomed this illegal government.

Izarra says the last straw came for him when, "We had a reporter in Miraflores and knew that it had been retaken by the Chavistas. the information blackout stood. That's when it was enough for me, and I decided to leave". Asked what he thought the response should be to this level of disinformation, Izarra replied, "I think their licenses should be revoked". Having had enough of corporate media's complicity in blocking news reportage, Izarra now serves as head of Telesur, the joint news channel broadcast by the nations of Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, and Cuba.

As Patrick McElwee, of Just Foreign Policy, points out: "It is frankly amazing that this company has been allowed to broadcast for 5 years after the coup, and that the Chavez government waited until its license expired to end its use of the public airwaves." Despite their participation in the coup, the Chavez administration entered into repeated negotiations with RCTV and its partners, Venevision, Globovision, and Television to make sure that such crass manipulation of the news would not occur again, and about other infractions. RCTV refused to reach any agreements.
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http://milfuegos.blogspot.com/2007/05/venezuela-rctv-and-media-freedom-just.html