FAIR notes US media anti-Chavez bias

[eridani]

What Are Enemies For?: Iran Sham Helps PBS Smear Chavez

http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/10/09/what-are-enemies-for-iran-sham-helps-pbs-smear-chavez/
Correspondent Ray Suarez opened by calling the election "a watershed moment for the world's second-largest oil-producing nation and a critical supplier of crude oil to the U.S"–I guess we know what makes Venezuela important to the United States.

ABC's Very Efficient Anti-Chavez Propaganda

http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/10/10/abcs-very-efficient-anti-chavez-propaganda/
So the "personal" insults of American presidents, the ability to disrupt the oil market with a phone call (who would he be calling, exactly?), cozying up to Iran and some Republicans say he's a national security threat. There's probably something that Ramos left out, but for one passage in a news broadcast, that's a pretty efficient use of space.

CNN Exposes 'Villain' Chavez's Dastardly Plot to House the Poor

http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/10/10/cnn-exposes-villain-chavezs-dastardly-plot-to-house-the-poor/

What really seems to rankle Frum, though, is not how well Venezuela's economy is doing but who it's benefiting, characterizing the channeling of the country's oil wealth to the poor as "massive government vote-buying." As an example, he cites a program "that aims to build 200,000 housing units for Venezuela's poor."

Only a supervillain could conceive of so dastardly a plot.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Great points from FAIR. I've never seen FAIR strike out. The CNN link is hilarious!

Thanks, so much, for posting these links. I've saved the last one for posterity. and they are all so well worth seeing.

[sabrina 1]

2. Finally what has been so obvious for so long to any fair-minded person. Fair must not know about the

millios of dollars that are spent to get this kind of anti-Chavez coverage. It's way past time to expose these tactics. It is imo, a crime to deny the people a free, truthful and open press. To deliberately take it over with the intention of deceiving the people.

The only good thing about the lies they tell about Venezuela is that they have been so outrageous, such blatant lies that most rational people especially on the Left, have seen through them.

Maybe a campaign should be started to monitor the media and to demand to know why they lie so much to the American people. We simply cannot have a democracy as long as the press is so manipulated.

Thank you for posting the links. Maybe it's the beginning of holding them accountable for their lying coverage and propaganda about Venezuela.

[Peace Patriot]

3. It is, indeed, mind-boggling what the Packaged News has done to Venezuela...

...and very worrisome, considering that Venezuelans own the biggest oil reserves on earth (twice Saudi Arabia's, according to the USGS).

Thanks for posting FAIR's analysis!