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Hugo Chavez Keeps Showering the Poor
If I had a nickel for every newspaper article that included language like this about Venezuela, I’d have… a whole lot of nickels, I guess. From Sunday’s Washington Post (2/24/13): Venezuelan President...
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AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic...
Makes Chavez’s schools and health clinics look pretty sad, doesn’t it? (Photo: Joi Ito) One of the more bizarre takes on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death comes from Associated Press business...
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NYT Debates Hugo Chavez–Minus the Debate
“On Eve of His Funeral, Debating Chávez’s Legacy” is the headline over William Neuman‘s piece in the New York Times today (3/8/13). Funny headline, since there was no one in the Times‘ “debate” who...
View ArticleFAIR TV: Hugo Chavez in U.S. Media, Time’s Path to Iran War, Keystone XL and...
This week on FAIR TV: Hugo Chavez was loathed by the U.S. press–and that didn’t change when they reported his death. Plus Time magazine provides a look at the “Path to War” with Iran–omitting a key...
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WikiLeaks: Was Chavez Right About U.S. Meddling?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (Photo: Bernardo Londoy) It’s no secret that U.S. media loathed the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Much of that was purely political; sure, Chavez could have...
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USA Today: Venezuelans Voted for High Unemployment and Food Shortages
Sunday’s election in Venezuela saw Vice President (or “Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor,” as he’s known to many in the corporate media) Nicolas Maduro narrowly defeat opposition candidate Henrique...
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Why We Need the New Yorker to Correct Its Error on Venezuelan Inequality
Jon Lee Anderson (cc photo: Alejandro Ventura) My hat is off to Keane Bhatt, NACLA blogger and occasional Extra! contributor, for his tireless efforts to prod one of the United States’ most...
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Jon Lee Anderson Explains: Because I Said So
Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson has a blog post on the magazine’s website (4/23/13) addressing the controversy over his recent coverage of Venezuela (FAIR Blog, 4/17/13): At...
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ABC Pundits on Snowden: The Center Holds!
David Gregory’s “Hey I’m just asking but are you a criminal?” question on Sunday’s Meet the Press has been getting a lot of attention, but it’s not the only Sunday morning discussion of Edward Snowden...
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Zakaria’s Fantastic Economic Advice
The Wall Street Journal map that explained Latin America to Fareed Zakaria. Fareed Zakaria presented what he called “another installment of ‘How to Ruin Your Economy in Five Easy Steps'” on his GPS...
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News From Venezuela–but Where Is It Coming From?
Venezuela as it appears on Caracas Chronicles. There’s a post from the blog Caracas Chronicles (2/20/14) that’s been making its way around social media, called “The Game Changed in Venezuela Last...
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The Question of US ‘Democracy Promotion’ in the Newspaper of Record
You might ask Chilean President Salvador Allende what he thinks about US democracy promotion–if he hadn’t been killed in a CIA-backed coup in 1973. (cc photo: Sebastian Baryli ) Sometimes the thing we...
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NYT Corrects Venezuela TV Falsehood
On February 21, a report in the New York Times by William Neuman about a supposed clampdown on dissent in Venezuela started out with this bold claim: The only television station that regularly...
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The Good Kind of Protesters–and the Bad Kind
Good protesters. It’s fair to say that the complex anti-government protest movements in both Venezuela and Ukraine were boiled down by US corporate media to send a clear message to their domestic...
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Who Is Dying in Venezuela? A Revealing NYT Correction
Venezuelan protester (cc photo: Andrés E. Azpúrua) Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has an op-ed in the New York Times today (3/26/14). Given that he is currently being held in a military...
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FAIR TV: NYT Venezuela Correction, Rich Lowry’s War Lies, Iran’s Unreal Ship
On the show: The New York Times runs an op-ed from a leader of the Venezuelan opposition–but it’s the correction that is most revealing. And right-wing pundit Rich Lowry can’t stand Vladmir Putin’s...
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Toothpaste Terrorism? Been There, Done That
ABC World News (6/24/14) ABC World News (6/24/14) had a story this week about Al-Qaeda linked militants in Syria and Yemen teaming up “to develop a new generation of bombs” including “explosives-laden...
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Washington Post Slams Venezuela for Electing ‘Former Bus Driver’
It’s no secret that the Washington Post editorial page was quite alarmed by Venezuela’s shift to the left under former President Hugo Chavez. The Post–like the rest of elite US media (Extra!,...
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‘Venezuelan Bomb Plot’ a Figment of FBI’s–and US Media’s–Imagination
NBC News (1/28/15) scares viewers with an imaginary “Venezuelan” plot. All these headlines are wrong: Ex-Los Alamos Scientist Gets 5 Years in Venezuelan Nuclear Bomb Plot —NBC News (1/28/15) US...
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WaPo, Owned by CIA’s Webmaster, Blasts Venezuela’s ‘State-Financed’ News
These unfortunate Venezuelans don’t have the Washington Post to tell them that it’s normal for the US president to make up national security crises in order to exercise emergency powers. (photo:...
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