Freedom of speech

[IndianaGreen]

Freedom of speech

By Morning Star

The Venezuelan people certainly have problems with freedom of speech, but they are not caused by the government so much as by the anti-Chavez oligarchy that controls 95 per cent of the media and excludes the opinions of the country's pro-Bolivarian-revolution majority.

Mr Bolton trades on the slavish uniformity of the US billionaire media to be confident that most US citizens will be unaware of media reality in Venezuela.

It is the same conformism that ensured a clear run for President Bush in the fraudulent "war on terror" that he launched after the September 11 2001 atrocities.

Once respected liberal CBS news anchorman Dan Rather admitted later that it ought to have been his patriotic duty to ask tough questions of the president, but, "in some ways, the fear is that you will be necklaced here. You will have a flaming tyre of lack of patriotism put around your neck."

The economic and political power of the handful of moguls who dominate the US media, at the behest of their corporate advertisers, strangles independent thought.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4129/1/211/

[Stargazer99]

1. It is time to start dismanteling excessive wealth and power

those problems are what ails this country and corps are the complete expression of wealth and power.