- 31 May 2014 05:30
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That was a good read, thanks for sharing, Demos. Blogs can be great sources of info, as there are many independant investigative journalists that run (or ran) their own blog. Glenn Greenwald started out his journalistic career by blogging. If there's citations with the blog, then that's even better, and the one you provided had around 50.
I imagine the movie you're referring to is John Pilger's "The War on Democracy", in which he tackles not just Venezuela, but the rest of Latin America. Here's the part about how the Venezuela pro-opposition mainstream media misrepresented the pro-Chavez forces on the bridge (who were actually defending themselves against the snipers).
Here's that exact part:
(warning this is a bit graphic at first)
"Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein
Demosthenes wrote:While you're on the subject of the completely corrupt US new media, let's talk about the part of the US coup where the media completely misrepresented who the pro-Chavez forces were shooting at. *looks up info again*
However, the implications of the media behaviour during the coup are profound, and extending far beyond the coup itself. Through a shockingly unified policy of misinformation, active participation in the planning and execution of the coup, and self-imposed censorship, and the active cover up of mass murder (the sniper shootings), the private media was complicit in the murder of civilians and was actively working to overthrow democratic institutions. By any reasonable analyses, this should be understood as an infringement on the rights of the Venezuelan people.
I have seen the movie that talks about this in great detail.
That was a good read, thanks for sharing, Demos. Blogs can be great sources of info, as there are many independant investigative journalists that run (or ran) their own blog. Glenn Greenwald started out his journalistic career by blogging. If there's citations with the blog, then that's even better, and the one you provided had around 50.
I imagine the movie you're referring to is John Pilger's "The War on Democracy", in which he tackles not just Venezuela, but the rest of Latin America. Here's the part about how the Venezuela pro-opposition mainstream media misrepresented the pro-Chavez forces on the bridge (who were actually defending themselves against the snipers).
Here's that exact part:
(warning this is a bit graphic at first)
"Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein