President Hugo Chavez will launch Televisora del Sur (Telesur)

This is fantastic news! Will counter Univision and even Faux! I may even learn to speak Spanish in order to watch!

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NEW TV NETWORK COMING

USA TODAY reports:

"Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will launch Televisora del Sur (Telesur) -- TV of the South -- a 24-hour hemispheric TV news network, with Venezuelan journalist Aram Aharonian at the helm. The idea, Chavez has explained, is to combat 'the conspiracy' by foreign networks to ignore or distort information about Latin America. 'We have been trained to see ourselves through foreign eyes,' Aharonian says. 'Europeans and Americans
see us in black and white, and yet this is a Technicolor continent.'

"Chavez's Telesur is drawing comparisons to al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arab satellite network. New sources of news can be healthy, says John Dinges, associate professor of journalism at Columbia University in New York. 'I am in favor of initiatives that create additional voices in the news,' he says. 'Al-Jazeera, for example, has made an important impact on journalism in the Middle East.' If Telesur is a propaganda tool for Chavez,
'that's politics, not journalism,' Dinges says. 'But if it's being done in order to spread an alternative journalistic voice, it will be good journalism and a contribution.'"

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Most people don't know that Univision, the numero-uno Spanish-language network in the U.S., is controlled by a Venezuelan billionaire named Gustavo Cisneros, who is a good friend of la familia Arbusto. Cisneros has been pretty active in bankrolling opposition to Chavez, so this comes as a nice "fuck you" to Univision.