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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela’s telecommunications agency notifies Globovision channel that it faces sanction [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)You are the one who is wrong on this point.
I call them the Associated Pukes, and for good reason. They are notoriously anti-Chavez--with lying, distorted coverage of every issue, always pushing rightwing "talking points." So are the Washington Psst and Globvision.
But the important point here--besides your extreme bias and the corporate press extreme bias--is whether or not a democratic people have the right to regulate their public airwaves. They do. End of story.
And I wish we had some regulation of the public airwaves here, too, like we USED TO HAVE, before Reagan got rid of the "Fairness Doctrine" that required those getting a license to use the public airwaves to serve the public interest with true balanced coverage of political news and opinion, among other things.
Venezuelans have an extremely important reason for insisting on "Fairness Doctrine"-type principles. The corporate media--including Globvision--LED the 2002 coup attempt, which succeeded in overturning Venezuela's democracy for several days before the people of Venezuela reversed it and restored Constitutional order. It has been called "the first media" coup for that very reason. And that, too, is the very reason that WE had a "Fairness Doctrine" in the first place--to prevent the inherently intrusive TV/radio media, which broadcasts into every home/vehicle, from fomenting coup d'etats against the legitimate, elected government in the interest of the 1%. We've had "soft" media coups here, with no "Fairness Doctrine." The Venezuelans had a "hard" one. They are therefore leading the way back to REAL democracy by fighting this very, very important fight to demand public accountability, fairness and impartiality from publicly licensed broadcasters using the public airwaves. It is their right. It is our right. I am glad that they are asserting it. We ought to be doing the same thing.