Reply #10: TV news anchors commented that Venezuela doesn't have freedom of the press [View All]

[eleny]

I heard this today on CNN, MSNBC and FOX. I've read articles about Venezuelan measures to stifle insulting comments about their government officials. Here is one from Human Rights Watch in 2005:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/03/24/venezu10368.htm

But I find it pathetic that the American press feels it can point a finger at another nation when our own MSM has been bought, paid for and hog tied by the right wing power brokers. Seems to me that the US MSM press would never dare be so critical of this administration.

At least Venezuelans, for some time, could read and hear their press blasting government. We haven't seen the likes of that since the Clinton years.

According to Peter Werbe, who traveled to Venezuela recently, their press blasts Chavez al the time. I think there's more freedom of the press in Venezuela than our MSM would have us believe. And I hope Werbe talks about it on his radio show.