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Journalists Quit Venezuela TV News Channel in Censorship Row
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-21/journalists-quit-venezuela-tv-news-channel-in-censorship-protest.htmlBy Anatoly Kurmanaev & Corina Pons - Aug 21, 2013 2:06 PM ET ..Facebook Share Tweet LinkedIn Google +1 1 Comment
Print QUEUEQ..Six senior journalists quit Venezuela’s main television news channel Globovision yesterday in protest at alleged interference by the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
The anchors and reporters resigned over the “abrupt, violent and aggressive” exit of creative director Leopoldo Castillo, who left Aug. 16 after 12 years at the channel, said Roberto Giusti, former host of talk show 33 Degrees. Castillo hasn’t commented on his departure.
The “conditions for conducting free journalism are absent from Globovision,” Giusti said by telephone from Caracas today.
Globovision, Venezuela’s only private channel specializing in news, was bought by three owners of Caracas-based insurance company Seguros La Vitalicia in May. The station has since stopped airing live speeches by opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski, according to former employees. It has also ended six news and current affairs programs and parted ways with 14 journalists to date.
