Posted by
Michael on Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:54:59 AM
I just ended the Hugo Chavez Watch blog
that I started around half a year ago. Updates were infrequent, and the
people that had helped start it seemed to lose interest as fast as
myself. Just as I should have expected, as soon as I end a blog
dedicated to monitoring this rising Communist tyrant, more news comes
in regarding Pirate Boy (my pet name for Hugo) and the Hollywood
celebrities that love him.
This was taken from a Newsbusters linked transcript of Sean Penn's appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman:
LETTERMAN:
But isn't he talking about nationalizing the media? That always makes
me a little concerned when somebody's talking about doing that.
PENN:
He's, well, you know, one of the things that's been said about him is
he's shut down a television station. What happened is that since 1998
they had been encouraging the assassination of Chavez every day on that
channel -- something that they would have gone to prison for here. And
so he just didn't re-up that license. But meanwhile, you know, the idea
that, that there's no freedom of expression, I mean the loons on Fox
News are broadcast there every day.
In contrast, here is the
Reporters Without Borders analysis of the closing of RCTV:
Widely condemned abroad, RCTV’s closure was much more than just an
administrative measure. It was a political move without precedent in
Latin America, a key element in a government takeover of the broadcast
media that is part of a determined effort to control and occupy the
entire public arena…
The press freedom organisation found that
the decisions to close RCTV and transfer its terrestrial broadcast
channel to a new public TV station, Televisora Venezolana Social
(Tves), were conducted outside of all regular legal channels and in
defiance of the jurisprudence established by the Organisation of
American States, to which Venezuela belongs.