Globovision: Source of Intelligence Information for the United States

[Judi Lynn]

Globovision: Source of Intelligence Information for the United States
By Carlos Ibarra
Apr 4, 2008, 21:17

April 1, 2008

Eva Golinger - U.S.-Venezuelan lawyer, writer and political analyst - says that the private TV station Globovision features a political space in order to spread manipulated and distorted information from abroad. “It seeks to highlights its importance and echo in Venezuela as if this moves public opinion in the United States.”

According to Eva Golinger - U.S.-Venezuelan lawyer, writer and political analyst - Globovision has taken up the role of spokesperson of the Venezuelan rightwing and other adversaries of President Chávez. She thinks that this TV station has become a portal to spread manipulated and distorted information in Venezuela from abroad. “Though it does not have as much projection as other private TV stations, it features a much bigger political space than any other station.”

Golinger explains that some issued by the U.S. Department of State were spread by Globovision not long ago before other media could broadcast it. “This TV station received information from a private source of the U.S. government and spread it before the very same U.S. spokespersons announced it,” she affirms.

Likewise, this political analyst mentions that some information is channeled via Globovision from overseas though it does not have enough international importance. “These actions undertaken by this channel make everybody thinks that information about Venezuela is going around the world,” she said.

”This has happened with information issued by different U.S. spokespersons and which is not going to be published at all by any U.S. newspaper of TV station. There, information is taken into account by public opinion when it is about a very important case such as the Iraq war or a special announcement by President Bush,” she explains.

Is it important to the U.S. public opinion that a U.S. official gives information about Venezuela?

Nobody sees it and nobody finds out about it in the United States. Only the journalists covering the U.S. Department of State report it as news, but no TV station gives it much importance. Through Globovision, they seek to highlight its importance and echo in Venezuela as if this moves public opinion in the United States. It also happens with some U.S. congressmen and women: unless the magnitude of the news is too important, most of the U.S. people is not interested in what they say there about the country.

Globovision, together with El Universal and El Nacional newspapers, has been a source of information for the U.S. intelligence bodies. In the last years, declassified documents of the Department of Defense always quote this TV station as an “official” source. I remember a particular document dated in 2002 that stated there were links between President Chávez and the FARC presented by Globovision, El Universal, El Nacional, El Tiempo de Bogotá and RCN.

How does Globovision act in Venezuela as the defender of multinational interests?

As we can see, media outlets such as =Globovision are identified with the right, and they are disinformation, propaganda and manipulation centers whose mission is to exaggerate the distortion of reality. Also, they have perfected their style thanks to the advice of psychological operation laboratories planned by the United States. There is no doubt about it. In 2005, the Pentagon opened a special office for this and hired private companies to support the devising of this strategy. In this sense, Globovision has improved its presentation of information so that it reaches the public in a much more shocking way. Sometimes they turn positive information into negative by using background music. They work on audiovisual senses in order to spread panic, and we have to add its journalists’ gestures when reporting.

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1. Excellent, Judi, thanks for posting!