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I question the POV of this article. It seems mostly anti-Chavez, rather than "fair and balanced."
I believe tottaly the opposite, the article is very prochavez! Eva Goliner is the ONLY cited bibliography, and she is completely pro chavez —Preceding
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What do you think about adding a sample of ten links to media coverage about chavez? Ideally group the references into camps or select representative points of view. I assume that class struggle would be the main division. {rich vs poor) I found this article (href= http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=52184) to be interesting. It contains a video link and a rebuttal to the video. A reference to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (documentary) I think would be something you'd want to have here. (This section seems to be so well planned out that I hesitate to "jump in".) ( MartinGugino 07:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC))
Why is this article limited to media representation in Venezuela only? It could be profitably expanded. Self-Described Seabhcán 17:58, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
This article really needs some sources. I'll tag the sections in due course.-- Zleitzen 23:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Some items to help in your research:
Chavez controlled the air waves — even before he passed laws which gave him even more control — through cadenas; he took over the airwaves far more than any other president, and used the two government-owned stations as his own to a level never before seen in Venezuela, even before he launched the new stations to spread his "revolution". His supporters say the media was against him, but he had more control over the airwaves than Venevision, et al. through cadenas and the government media. Need sources on the cadenas, I know he had a record number.
Absurd, hours long ramblings every week on Alo Presidente, contributing to his control of air waves. This is a factor that needs to be discussed: need sources.
He has passed a series of laws which restrict criticism of him in particular and freedom of the media in general. Notice that none of the El Universal articles have reporter bylines. If you follow El Universal daily, knowing that they can't truly report and criticize, you can get a sense of the extent of the issue. Their articles are exceedingly vague, short, and you have to read between the lines or wait for the international media to report.
Naim points out that the international media wsn't paying attention (that was my sense, having recently left Venezuela); they didn't start paying attention until around the end of 2004, 2005. Now, of course, Chávez commands the media's attention daily. Juan Forero, of the NYT, was reporting, as was the BBC, and their reporting was relatively pro-Chavez early on. (During the largest protests in Venezuela's history — against Chavez, and which you can see pictures of throughout these articles — the Times ran a picture with a Forero story of *one* protestor with a flag in front of a building.) I don't understand the statements that existed in older versions of these articles about international media being against Chávez, but they were unsourced opinion.
On the other hand, Chavez has had a very effective PR machine, both domestically and abroad. I've seen numerous references to the amount he spends on US PR, would have to find sources.
There are two sources that may help you locate reliable sources: VCrisis.com on the pro-democracy side, and as I've learned from Flanker, Venezuelanalysis on the pro-Chávez side. Neither are reliable sources, but searching through their content might point you towards reliable sources. For example, VCrisis carries a reprint of an old Naim article, which gives a very good overview of the factors that led to Chavez (material that is missing in the Chavez articles) [1].
ElUniversal.com has a search engine in English and in Spanish, but I don't know the names in Spanish of the laws passed by Chavez, so I haven't searched on them.
Some of what I have at hand:
Page 9 of the Noriego Senate testimony discusses laws restricting TV stations: [2]
Amnesty International, see Freedom of expression: [3]
Human Rights Watch, Senate testimony: [4]
HRW has numerous articles about manipulation of the press, curbs on freedom of expression, and the media laws: [5]
The Shifter article is an overview: [6] It discusses the changes in laws on page 48. Foreign Policy has another overview, which discusses the media laws: [7]
Thor Halvorssen's Chavez vs. the Media: [8]
Another Halvorssen article, and responses to Halvorssen from the liberal Larry Birns and Mark Weisbrot, of cepr.net (Weisbrot and Birns are consistent Chávez defenders, Halvorssen is a critic.) [9] I have not been able to use any of the liberal rebuttal material there, because it is a letter to the editor, rather than hard news, but it will give you some leads for research.
At one point, Chavez's currency controls caused newspapers to run low on newsprint. That was a Toothaker, Christopher, Associated Press report from March 19, 2003: I don't have an online copy. The opening sentence is "President Hugo Chavez is using currency controls to limit press freedom by denying Venezuelan newspapers the dollars needed to import newsprint, a newspaper director said Wednesday. ... The government published a list this week of 6,000 imported items, such as medicine and food, that will be eligible for private dollar purchases at a date to be announced. Newsprint is not on the list, although the government says it may be in the future."
Sandy 02:20, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Sandy 03:20, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Sandy 03:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
An overview from Veneconomy (PDF), highly-respected economic group in Venezuela. Sandy 13:25, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Chavez and Mercosur on media controls: Mercosur rejects Venezuelan proposal on media. Sandy 00:17, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
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This article should be deleted. It's a vulgar article to defend Chavez's policies. -- Andrewire ( talk) 10:55, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
I agree we shoould delete the quote backed by footnote 18 which is attributed by a Venezuelan diplomat about freedom of press and add Hugo's persecution of GlobovisionI suggest a thread on Chavez persecuting all non goverment controlled media such as Glbovision. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/05/venezuela.tvstation.owner/index.html.Tannim1 (talk) 00:22, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
I've tried to balance attacks on Chavez with documented support for Chavez by a US official Mark Lloyd with the FCC. This has been deleted for having nothing to do with Chavez. Isn't it relevant that this leader which is strongly criticized by the US press was mentioned by name by the official in charge of "diversifying" US broacasting to balance excessive conservative content? Assuming that Lloyd is familiar with closing down radio stations and dissenting opinion by Chavez, that would be an example of Chavez policy affecting that in the US potentially, which would greatly be in favor of Chavez. BTW, Mark Lloyd is currently a blocked stub, no one is allowed to talk about Chavez and Lloyd in the same article over there. Bachcell ( talk) 17:58, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Media outlets in the United States, and in other parts of the world, have consistently suggested that Hugo Chavez is a "dictator" or is "headed in that direction",
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[2] in spite of the fact that he and his party have won numerous national elections certified by international observers, and confirmed by independent international polling companies.
[3] However, there is some support in the US as a federal official appointed to promote diversity in broadcasting remarked about the "democratic revolution" of the people rebelling against property owners who dominated the media in Venezuela. Cite error: A <ref>
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[2] in spite of the fact that he and his party have won numerous national elections certified by international observers, and confirmed by independent international polling companies.
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"However, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) questioned whether, in the event a television station openly supported and collaborated with coup leaders, the station in question would not be subject to even more serious consequences in the United States or any other Western nation. [1]
FAIR is a hyperpartisan, pro-Palestine, pro-Chavez source who while is generally allowed to provide facts or give unique analysis, generally mentioning their opinion or a rhetorical point by them is considered WP:UNDUE. With that reasoning I would like to remove this purely rhetorical question as it neither adds anything to the discussion and only forwards their pro-Chavez support. Wikiposter0123 23:02, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Ok, that's fine then. I didn't realize that they were supporting the coup. If that's the case then I have no qualms over its inclusion. Cheers. :) Wikiposter0123 ( talk) 22:09, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Media representation of Hugo Chávez's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Kraft":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 13:15, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
The article subject is supposed to be about how the media portrayed Chavez but the actual content is almost entirely just a history of the Venezuelan media during Chavez's tenure. Any thoughts? Mbinebri talk ← 14:02, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
@ Mbinebri: I didn't like this article that much and I tried to summarize it since much of the things are in more detail in other articles like 2002 Ven. coup media role section, Bolivarian propaganda, etc. The best I could find through the sources is the Venezuelan media was originally friendly with Chávez yet cautious, became aggressive after some serious scuffles with the GOV and ultimately was neutered to the point where Chávez now has a cult of personality. There are also the arguments of the 70% private media yada, yada but human rights groups say that self-censorship eventually cuts that number down greatly and the 70% should be asterisked.
The result of the move request was: moved. Unopposed for over three weeks. Jenks24 ( talk) 15:45, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Media representation of Hugo Chávez →
Public image of Hugo Chávez – Per the standard in
Category:Public image of politicians. Relisted.
Jenks24 (
talk) 13:24, 15 July 2015 (UTC) --Relisted.
George Ho (
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