Venezuela launches probe of TV channel's coverage

Source: AP

..CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's telecommunications agency has begun another investigation of the TV channel Globovision, this time for its coverage of a violent standoff at a prison.

National Telecommunications Commission director Pedro Maldonado says officials are looking at whether the channel violated a broadcast law by showing images that could generate anxiety or disorder.

He announced the investigation Thursday and showed some of the channel's footage from mid-June after troops stormed two prisons trying to disarm inmates.

Globovision takes a stridently critical stance of the government, and has been the subject of several government probes on such themes as its coverage of protests, an earthquake and remarks about President Hugo Chavez.
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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-launches-probe-tv-channels-coverage-214540260.html

They've been after Globovision and other "independent" outlets for years. Sickening.

I'm sure you are heading to Tennessee to protest them for doing the same thing with their "thuggery".

And for that reason, has my respect. It's a shame we don't stand up to the propaganda as well. We will regret it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1391441

that prison situation really has worked out well. no disorder there.

p.s. lol

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are the people of Venezuela so delicate that the nanny state has to protected them from being upset?


Would you settle for this in America?

by some pesky non-state controlled media mouthpiece.

Besides...Hugo mocked Bush at the UN. That "sulfur" thing was such a hoot!

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They did arrest some twitter users over it (though they were manipulating markets, so that's more reasonable). They've yet to take it to its obvious ends, though.

It's effectively Venezuela's Patriot Act.

It could be due to Chavez's absence that the hardliners are pressing to make the law have meat.

how pleased would you be to learn that your elected officials let gangs run the prisons?

I didn't know that.

http://www.ngcrc.com/corr2006.html

See the above analysis of gangs in prison. Rape is the norm in men's prisons.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2079611,00.html#ixzz1QuebT5HT

And take a look at their prison death rate



http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6289

What, you expected differently?



:shrug:

that's why the prisons are so crowded and violent.

Which is why I am an anti-authoritarian leftist and not "just" a leftist.

so it doesn't surprise me at all.

Chavez groupies are especially hypocritical.