Posted on 06/28/2009 11:47:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets holding separate protests to support and condemn private TV station Globovision, which leftist President Hugo Chavez has threatened to shut down. Protesters aligned with the opposition called for "defending access to information" and denounced "the persecution against Globovision that seeks to close it permanently" in a statement read after their march.
Caracas has stepped up its criticism of Globovision, the only anti-Chavez station still broadcasting on Venezuela's public airwaves, with the country's telecommunications regulator launching four different investigations into the channel for alleged violations.
Police have searched a mansion belonging to the station's president, Guillermo Zuloaga, who has also been charged with usury. And the network has been fined over four million dollars by the authorities.
Thousands of Chavez supporters also marched Saturday alongside "socialist" journalists. At their final stop before parliament, they handed a petition to the president of the national assembly, Cilia Flores, calling for "an end to media terrorism," as part of a reform of journalism laws.
"Let's remove their concession and give it to other journalists," said Willian Lara, governor of the central state of Guarico and a former communications minister.
In May, Chavez's United Socialist Party accused Globovision of "media terrorism" for getting ahead of the government in reporting about an earthquake.
The government has also lambasted the channel for broadcasting comments by a journalist who said Chavez, a close ally of Cuba's communist regime, would end his days like former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, "hung with his head down."
The firebrand leftist leader has threatened Globovision with the same fate that befell RCTV (Radio Caracas Television), the oldest and most popular television network in the country.
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Closed for the common good, of course.
El Doctrino Fairnesso.
This is what 0 plans for FOX.
Are we ready?
Chavez is trying to make ABC the official news network of Venezuela, though he’s a bit concerned that it’s even more left than he is...
Maybe the freedom-seeking Venezuelans can take a cue from the Iranians.
They will have to get past Hugu’s mob first — last time the good guys were crushed.
“This is what 0 plans for FOX. Are we ready?”
We haven’t even put enough people in the street to alarm anyone with the administration making us a Fascist dictatorship...what are we gonna do to help Fox?
Come to think of it, they aren’t doing much to help themselves. They keep putting on Goober and Juan Mccain gushing over what a swell job the Kenyan mutt is doing...
Just knowing zer0 is in charge is sure comforting though.
I wasn’t talking about helping FOX.
“I wasn’t talking about helping FOX.”
Ohhhhhhhh...can I have a hint?
It’s really not necessary. Just try reading the post in context. So no, you can’t.
Hey he’ll contemplate all this with a cone of Rocky Road.
“It’s really not necessary. Just try reading the post in context. So no, you can’t.”
Oh pleeeeeeaaaaase...if I read the post in context, it looks like you are saying that FR TV is in jeopardy...I’m soooooooooo confused... ;^)
“the Kenyan mutt”
I love that name...I’m going to use that often if you don’t mind...funny stuff.
“the Kenyan mutt” I love that name...I’m going to use that often if you don’t mind...funny stuff.
Please do...but I can’t take credit for it...he’s a Kenyan and he said...and I quote...”We have two criteria that have to be reconciled. One is that Malia is allergic, so it has to be hypoallergenic. There are a number of breeds that are hypoallergenic,” he said. “On the other hand, our preference would be to get a shelter dog, but, obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.”
Don’t think for a moment that El Puerco Hugo and his ‘Chavistas’ won’t reap the curses as anti-semites. Reference source Genesis 12:3. Same bag as as the Israel hating mullahs and puppet monkey!
Time for them to imitate Honduras and roll out the army and arrest Chavez.
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