(A related point, perhaps, is that perhaps the most important media lie about Venezuela is one of omission: no mention of perhaps the most oppositional commercial media in any country in the world, and its campaign against the referendum that included exaggerations and lies.)
In article after article (by Juan Forero in particular) the New York Times gave lots of ink
Opposition Rejects Audit Plan in Venezuela Recall Vote Dispute
These are elections opposition parties
"since the essence of your post on Venezuela was wrong, do you feel any need to address that?"
The essence?
If there had been a *victory* this narrow
I was not acting as a journalist. I was acting as an activist.
did not claim that the polling machines, provided by a private company, were rigged. Fortunately, there's good reason not to claim this: Venezuela's election system is verifiably accurate, unlike the elections in my own United States.
I still think, of course, that it would be good for readers to see relevant articles and responses
http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Media/Propaganda/Venezuela.asp#M...
The New York Times
A Tale of Two Strongmen
in short, despite the first electoral loss by this alleged autocrat, the media is sticking to the story that Venezuela is not democratic.
Related Content:
- Venezuela's Revolution Checked, by Gregory Wilpert (December 24, 2007)
U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1867
Los Angeles Times Editorial Coverage of Venezuela 1998-2006
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/1629
I misread some polls. I was wrong. I admitted it.
Would the New York Times do the same if the results went the other way?
The essence of my post was that the U.S. (and international) public is being misinformed to be
Venezuela: Reality versus reporting
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3008
Ritual Gloating Postmortems - The Corporate Media v. Hugo Chavez
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2988
Comparisons of media Franklin Delano Roosevelt as much as anyone,
http://nylatinojournal.com/home/eagles_in_fall,_lions_in_spring/analysis...
Confused About Venezuela?
EVA GOLINGER
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Imagever the past few days, major newspapers in the United States, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, have published editorials aggressively and harshly criticizing recent declarations and decisions made by re-elected President Hugo Chávez and his cabinet. A large percentage of the content of these editorials, which reflect the viewpoints of the newspapers, are based on a distortion and misconception of new policies being implemented in Venezuela and the overall way government is functioning.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2796
Extra! November/December 2005
The Op-Ed Assassination of Hugo Chávez
Commentary on Venezuela parrots U.S. propaganda themes
By Justin Delacour
http://www.swans.com/library/art8/gowans28.html
Orwellian Inversion,
Or Just Another Day At The New York Times?
by Stephen Gowans
April 22, 2002
A lie so bold that it turns truth on its head is more likely to be believed than a little lie. Hitler said it, George Orwell explored it in his novel 1984 (whence comes the eponymous "Orwellian inversion"), and The New York Times -- and congeries of New York Times wanna-be's -- practice it.
So it was that when Venezuela's military high command told the country's elected president, Hugo Chavez, that he would have to step down for the intolerable crime of supposing his countrymen, 80 percent of whom live below the poverty line, should share in the country's immense oil wealth, the Western world's newspaper of record cheered the coup as a victory for democracy. "With yesterday's resignation of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be-dictator," the venerable newspaper intoned, matched only for boldness in mendacity by the White House's, "Now the situation will be one of tranquility and democracy."
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=166
Unlike the Cuban revolution which, in less than three years, had eliminated illiteracy, reduced rents by half, nationalized electricity and implemented agrarian reform, the Bolivarian revolution has not yet implemented great structural reforms. However, unlike the Castroite revolution, Chavismo has not suppressed any newspapers, banned parties, or arrested any political prisoners. So in neither sense can the Bolivarian revolution be assimilated to some kind of ’Cubanization’.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=14228
A Page Out of Washington’s Propaganda Playbook on Venezuela
by Michael Fox
November 07, 2007
