{"id":395494,"date":"2019-02-08T01:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/venezuela-blitz-press-freedom-sanctions-and-oil\/"},"modified":"2019-02-08T01:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T00:35:12","slug":"venezuela-blitz-press-freedom-sanctions-and-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/venezuela-blitz-press-freedom-sanctions-and-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Blitz: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Press Freedom \u2013 Taking A Glance At A Newspaper Stand<\/strong><\/p>\n

In support of their claim that Maduro is a \u2018tyrant\u2019 who does not allow free elections, corporate media consistently point to a lack of press freedom. When British academic Alan MacLeod of Glasgow Media Group reviewed<\/a> 166 Western media articles evaluating the state of press freedom between 1998-2014, he found that all<\/em> depicted Venezuelan media as \u2018caged\u2019, or unfree. Last week, Canadian political analyst Joe Emersberger commented<\/a> in The Canary<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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The idea that Venezuela has a \u201ccaged\u201d media has to be one of the most unforgivable pieces of Western propaganda about the country. And a simple analysis shows just how ignorant that allegation is. Indeed, just a few days ago, one of Venezuela\u2019s most widely read newspapers, El Universal, published an op-ed enthusiastically applauding the efforts of the US-backed opposition to bring about President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s ouster by recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 as the country\u2019s new president. The op-ed said Guaid\u00f3 was managing his US-backed strategy \u201cperfectly\u201d. And it joyously stated that the US and its allies had Maduro surrounded, and almost ready to be ousted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In 2016, Emersberger wrote<\/a> of earlier protests:<\/p>\n

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In fact, the protests and the leading opposition leaders\u2019 take on the protests are being extensively covered on the largest private networks: Venevision, Televen, Globovision. If people abroad sampled Venezuela\u2019s TV media directly,…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Press Freedom \u2013 Taking A Glance At A Newspaper Stand In support of their claim that Maduro is a \u2018tyrant\u2019 who does not allow free elections, corporate media consistently point to a lack of press freedom. When British academic Alan MacLeod of Glasgow Media Group reviewed 166 Western media articles evaluating the state of press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}