Reply #109: Well then, by that logic

[RZM]

I imagine you were also critical of Reuters in 2002 when they 'amplified' Bush's 'Axis of Evil' line at the expense of many other items in a speech he made to 'his own populace.'

Please.

You know full well that high-profile leaders often have the foreign audience in mind when making domestic speeches or comments to their own media outlets. Do you think that Reuters has an obligation to emphasize Chavez's statements on Venezuelan agriculture as much as they do his statements about his own foreign policy or assessments of the foreign policies of other nations? I'm not saying there's not media bias regarding Chavez, of course there is. But in any case Chavez undoubtedly knew this comment would be picked up by the international media and I believe he intended it to be.