Venezuela to Host Latin American Meeting Against Media Terrorism

[Joanne98]

Mérida, March 24, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)- Andrés Izarra, the Venezuelan Minister of Communication and Information, announced that a Latin American Meeting against Media Terrorism will take place this coming weekend in Caracas, whose main theme will be the media war waged by domestic and foreign private media against the Venezuelan and other like-minded leftist governments in the region.

Over the course of the weekend, Caracas "will be converted into the world capital of the struggle against media terrorism," Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez proclaimed in support of the meeting Monday.

"It is necessary to discuss themes such as this," Chávez sustained, "since media terrorism utilizes the means of communication - radio, press, and television - to generate war, violence, fear and anxiety in our peoples."

The media war is also going on in Bolivia, Ecuador, and other countries whose governments promote social change, according to Izarra. As an example, he highlighted the efforts of the Bogotá-based daily El Tiempo and Spanish El País to link Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) during the conflict sparked by Colombian attacks on the FARC in Ecuadorian territory in early March.

Focusing on links with the FARC in order to distract from Colombia's violation of national sovereignty was "evidence of how they create media matrices based on lies, information taken out of context, and repeated by the principal media," Izarra outlined.

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WOW! What a great idea. Hugo is Da man...

[Peace Patriot]

1. We need a conference on corporate media terrorism HERE!

How they terrorized us after 9/11...

How they terrorized us into heinous, unjust war on innocent Iraqis, 1.2 million of whom have been slaughtered by our bombs and guns...

How they terrorize us every day on big war profiteer and police state spending...

How they terrorized us into remaining silent and disempowered, as our Constitution has been shredded....

How they shoved two stolen presidential elections down our throats...

How they terrorized us into disenfranchisement....

How they terrorized us into the failed, hypocritical, ruinous "war on drugs"...

How they terrorize us into imprisoning non-violent offenders (70% of those in our jails) for long prison terms...

How they terrorized us into capital punishment...

How they terrorize us into peeing into a cup for our employers...

How they terrorize, lie to, and disinform us, and cover up for war criminals every day.

And what to do about it.

We are way behind Venezuela as to our main power TO do something about it--transparent vote counting. Fix that--and start electing real representatives of the people--and we will soon be able to restore our rights over our public airwaves.

News media corporations are licensed by the public. We need to dismantle their monopolies, and pull their licenses, when they don't serve the public good with balanced political content and free air time for a wide spectrum of views. Chavez denied a license renewal to RCTV for participating in a violent rightwing military coup against the elected government. We need to do more. The airwaves must serve the public interest. And anything that interferes with that--such as corporate war profits or other profiteering controlling all news/opinion--must be banned.

But first, we've got to rip the veil of "trade secret" programming code off our elections--and restore vote counting that everyone can see and understand. We can hold a conference on media terrorism, but we can't do anything about it until we have restored transparent elections, with the votes counted in the public venue.

[aldo]

2. Wow! There should be no cross-ownership of media outlets period

Every newspaper, every radio and TV station, totally independent, no corporate ownership of news outlets -- that would give us America back.

Chavez, hero of democracy.