Private, Opposition TV Continues to Dominate in Venezuela, New Paper Finds

[fascisthunter]

Data Show State TV Has 5.4 Percent of the TV Audience

For Immediate Release: December 13, 2010 En Español
Contact: Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460

Washington, D.C.- A new issue brief looking at data on Venezuela TV audiences contradicts the widely believed -- and widely reported -- claim that the Chávez government dominates the television media. In reality, the paper finds the opposite is true: the state share of television audience is very small -- currently only 5.4 percent --while private, opposition-owned channels overwhelmingly dominate the television audience, with 61.4 percent watching privately owned TV channels, and 33.1 percent watching paid TV.

“Statements claiming the Venezuelan government ‘controls’ or ‘dominates’ the media are not only exaggerated, but simply false,” CEPR Co-Director and lead author of the paper, Mark Weisbrot, said.

These claims appear regularly in the major U.S. media and are almost never challenged. For example, in a description of Venezuela’s elections last September for the National Assembly, the Washington Post referred to the Chavez “regime’s domination of the media . . . .” In an interview on CNN, Lucy Morillon of Reporters Without Borders stated, “President Chavez controls most of the TV stations.”


http://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-releases/press-releases/private-opposition-tv-continues-to-dominate-in-venezuela

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Not Possible! HesAdikTato! Nt.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Stalinist "Big Lie" technique used against Chavez!

Reporters Without Borders ought to be ashamed of themselves for participating in it.

[fascisthunter]

3. yup... I forget the man's Name

but a while back, Guy James did and interview with a man representing Reporters without Borders, and the shit he was saying was so ridiculous and exaggerated that I realized he and his org were not to be trusted.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Thanks for the notice Guy James is still doing his show. Good news.

Reporters Without Borders are totally unreliable, completely political, and deceitful. It's a real sham operation.

That show would have been hard to take!