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What is the Venezuelan News Media Actually Like?

Submitted July 16, 2008 - 2:10 pm by Eric Jackson (not verified)

My principal criticism of this article?

One medium, several media.

Here in Panama, all of the oligarchic media denounced the non-renewal of the RCTV license, and it was left to the ragtag online media to note that freedom of the press is not a license to kidnap the president, kill people and overturn the results of national elections. Of course those of us who suggested that the issue with RCTV was treason rather than dissent were roundly vilified.

Panama's ad cartel and its corporate mainstream media are terrified of the Pink Tide because although they have everything rigged something might come loose and somebody could come along and sweep them out of power, as the Bolivarians did with their Venezuelan counterparts.

Let us hope that the market forces that oligarchs like to both praise and divert actually work, so that there are fewer oligarchic media, and that on the other side of the equation there are plural and diverse media, rather than one "media" with several outlets.

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