Drone Camera Corrects CNN Español Report on Caracas Demonstrations

NewsBusters ^ | March 23, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Look, up in the sky!
It's a bird...
It's a plane...
It's a drone camera!

And it was a drone camera whose video corrected the false impression left by a CNN en Español report that there was somehow an equivalency in the size of competing demonstrations on Saturday in Caracas, Venezuela. As Daniel Duquenal of Venezuela News and Views complained, the CNN en Español report by Guillermo Arduino gave only closeup shots of competing Chavista and opposition demonstrations. However, the drone eye in the sky revealed the vast panoply of the opposition demonstration that seemed to number in the hundreds of thousands. Here is the post by Duequenal explaining why he was so irked by the CNN en Español report:

[PJ-Comix]

Imagine if we had drone cameras revealing the vast extent of the 9/12 DC Tea Party rally in 2009? The MSM kept downplaying its size and an eye in the sky drone camera view would have proved them wrong.

[fhayek]

Journalism without credibility is worthless.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Imagine if we had drone cameras revealing the vast extent of the 9/12 DC Tea Party rally in 2009? The MSM kept downplaying its size and an eye in the sky drone camera view would have proved them wrong.

I'm sure there were.

[2banana]

Sounds like how the US press equates hundreds of thousands of pro-life demonstrators to a hundred pro-choice demonstrators...

Close ups with some signs in the back ground

[fhayek]

You didn't need a drone. All you needed was a helicopter. I am sure they were available, if not actually being used. They didn't want to tell the story of the size of the rally.

[PJ-Comix]

You didn't need a drone. All you needed was a helicopter.

A helicopter costs a lot of money which only the networks can afford. Drones are much cheaper and regular folks can use them.

[WayneM]

I was there too. Took panoramic pictures with my camera about 6 feet over my head.
My honest attemp at a cowd estimate was about 350,000. CNN ESTIMATED 10,000.
I will never, ever trust anything said on CNN. EVER.

[PJ-Comix]

Imagine the shot you could have gotten with a drone camera 600 feet above your head?

[fella]

The drone view claims to be at the meeting place of the 2 demonstration but which one is which.

[AlmaKing]

I can’t tell what is what in this video, so it’s worthless.

Show me a picture comparing two crowd sizes and 100% identifying which side is which.

[PJ-Comix]

Two OPPOSITION demonstrations that merged. Not government.