So is the Telecommunications draft-law simply an attempt to wreak revenge on the opposition for past misdeeds? One would certainly be led to believe so if you fell for the Venezuelan opposition's constant bleating over the fate of Radio Caracas TV (RCTV) which simply had its free-to-air broadcast license denied when it came up for renewal just over a year ago! Yes, all hell broke loose with opposition and USA criticism that it was 'censorship in disguise' but considering the incredibly abusive track record of RCTV in breaking just about every broadcasting rule in the book, it was scarcely any surprise that the government took the limited action of telling them to take a hike.
Unfortunately the channel replacement by TVes is a half-baked shadow of any shade of professionalism and is basically an echo of already pro-Chavez over laden hype like state-owned Venezolana de Television (VTV) which makes a very, very, very poor effort to emulate the BBC or NPR.
With 'I am God' government officials pre-disposed to snarl their own abuse to the opposition media, little realizing that they are essentially digging their own media graves, the ever-widening chasm between opposition and pro-Chavez reporting is getting to oceanic proportions ahead of November 23 local and regional elections which do NOT bode well for President Chavez' (not-so-)United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) which could possibly meet its own Armagheddon come November 24.
Rather, indeed, President Hugo Chavez Frias and his publicists should get down from their lofty white horses and walk awhile with what they perceive to be their most abject enemies in the Washington Post, New York Times, Houston Chronicle and even VHeadline Venezuela.
While they cower in their ivory towers in Miraflores or on downtown Avenida Universidad throwing hissy-fits, they will only cross-fertilize their own paranoia and fright of one-to-one communication ... they leave themselves with NO opportunity to do other than to preach to the already converted, singing from the same hymn-sheet with little or no prospect of getting potential converts around the world to sing the same song.
There's little point in yelling the 'Glad Hosannas' at the top of their voices on the home front, and to the distraction of incredulous men and women in the streets of Anytown USA ... or Anywhere Else ... if those who are temporarily tuned-in to "the message" are treated like so much feces to be flushed down the pan under some concept that the Bolivarian Revolution is the anti-cancer drug to save the world from eternal neo-Con damnation.
It simply doesn't work that way!
And the sooner Venezuela's Minister of Communications & Information (MinCI) Andres Izarra and his boss, President Chavez, realize the folly of their media ways, the better it will be for them to have the various idiots, locos and disinformers understand that Venezuelan democracy means transparency and openness in information and NOT the folly of April 2002 when Carmona Estanga. thankfully, failed to pull down the shutters on Venezuela courtesy of the Washington Beltway bullies and the White House cabal.
BUT they must NOT do it by imposing censorship in any shape or form ... that is the ultimate annihilation of everything that President Hugo Chavez Frias stood for when he was democratically elected to be President of the Republic of Venezuela ... and so it should remain!
Roy S. Carson
vheadline@gmail.com
Unfortunately the channel replacement by TVes is a half-baked shadow of any shade of professionalism and is basically an echo of already pro-Chavez over laden hype like state-owned Venezolana de Television (VTV) which makes a very, very, very poor effort to emulate the BBC or NPR.
With 'I am God' government officials pre-disposed to snarl their own abuse to the opposition media, little realizing that they are essentially digging their own media graves, the ever-widening chasm between opposition and pro-Chavez reporting is getting to oceanic proportions ahead of November 23 local and regional elections which do NOT bode well for President Chavez' (not-so-)United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) which could possibly meet its own Armagheddon come November 24.
Rather, indeed, President Hugo Chavez Frias and his publicists should get down from their lofty white horses and walk awhile with what they perceive to be their most abject enemies in the Washington Post, New York Times, Houston Chronicle and even VHeadline Venezuela.
There's little point in yelling the 'Glad Hosannas' at the top of their voices on the home front, and to the distraction of incredulous men and women in the streets of Anytown USA ... or Anywhere Else ... if those who are temporarily tuned-in to "the message" are treated like so much feces to be flushed down the pan under some concept that the Bolivarian Revolution is the anti-cancer drug to save the world from eternal neo-Con damnation.
It simply doesn't work that way!
And the sooner Venezuela's Minister of Communications & Information (MinCI) Andres Izarra and his boss, President Chavez, realize the folly of their media ways, the better it will be for them to have the various idiots, locos and disinformers understand that Venezuelan democracy means transparency and openness in information and NOT the folly of April 2002 when Carmona Estanga. thankfully, failed to pull down the shutters on Venezuela courtesy of the Washington Beltway bullies and the White House cabal.
BUT they must NOT do it by imposing censorship in any shape or form ... that is the ultimate annihilation of everything that President Hugo Chavez Frias stood for when he was democratically elected to be President of the Republic of Venezuela ... and so it should remain!
Roy S. Carson
vheadline@gmail.com
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