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    Venezuela and the Media: Fact and Fiction June 1, 2007 "If (critical of Hugo Chavez Venezuelan station) RCTV were broadcasting in the United States, its license would have been revoked years ago. In fact its owners would likely have been tried for criminal offenses, including treason." Venezuela and the Media: Fact and Fiction June 1, 2007 Full Article at Rantburg
    If (critical of Hugo Chavez Venezuelan station) RCTV were broadcasting in the United States, its license would have been revoked years ago. In fact its owners would likely have been tried for criminal offenses, including treason.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
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If You Like FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd and Van Jones, You'll Love Free Press Co-Founder Robert McChesney
  1. At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  2. Aggressive unqualified political dissent is alive and well in the Venezuelan mainstream media, in a manner few other democratic nations have ever known, including our own.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  3. Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  4. Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism. It is impossible to conceive of a better world with a media system that remains under the thumb of Wall Street and Madison Avenue, under the thumb of the owning class.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  5. To the extent commercial activities are given First Amendment protection, it makes the rule of capital increasingly off-limits to political debate and government regulation. In my view, progressives need to stake out a democratic interpretation of the First Amendment and do direct battle with the Orwell...
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  6. Venezuela is a constitutional republic. Chavez has won landslide victories that would be the envy of almost any elected leader in the world, in internationally monitored elections.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  7. The last thing we want to do, however, is rebuild the old media system. We are moving ahead toward a new kind of journalism. ...We want to democratize the media system so that people without property can play a much larger role in the media and in political life. The result of such democratization will,...
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  8. There is no real answer (to the U.S. economic crisis) but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  9. Walter Isaacson has proposed that newspapers come up with a plan to charge readers 'micropayments' for online content. Even if such a system were practically possible, the last thing we should do is erect walls that block the openness and democratic genius of the Internet.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago

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