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Venezuela's president blames telenovelas for crime
http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-39-president-blames-telenovelas-crime-050225855.html;_ylt=A0oG7nYoAd5S_1cA6DNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0OHIyZThrBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1NXSU1DMV8x
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolas Maduro has a new villain as he campaigns to bring down Venezuela's spiraling crime: telenovelas. He accuses the TV soap operas of spreading "anti-values" to young people by glamorizing violence, guns and drugs.
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On Monday night, his vice president, Jorge Arreaza, met with broadcast and pay TV operators to review the prime time lineup, warning that they could be in violation of a 2004 law mandating "socially responsible" programming. The two sides will meet in a week with the aim of drafting an agreement on meeting those obligations.
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Barrera Tyszka, the soap opera creator, said the president's campaign also reinforces government control of the airwaves, providing it with another tool to bully channels whose news coverage it frequently attacks as part of a right-wing conspiracy trying to destabilize the nation. Media self-censorship is already high after several years of the government imposing multimillion-dollar fines and even taking channels off the air for allegedly slanted coverage.
"There are almost no guns in Venezuelan telenovelas," he said. "There are a number of things that aren't shown for fear of being fined."
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Funny thing is that they passed legislation which banned the sale of violent video games in order to reduce violence amongst the youth some years ago. Apparently it didn't work for shit. And hey, it's not like people in the barrios don't have an expensive video game console in every household, or that TV shows and movies don't have an age rating to indicate to parents if their content is suitable for their children to watch. 
This is just another bullshit tactic by the government trying to shift the blame of violence to other causes other than themselves.
