Reply #2: Where are the anti-Chavistas descrying the murder of journalists in Honduras? [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

They claim that Chavez trying to bring some "Fairness Doctrine" balance to the public airwaves, which are dominated by corpo-fascists, there as well as here, is "an attack on free speech," when in truth it is the opposite. The majority and various excluded groups are getting access to the public airwaves, at long last.

But when REAL attacks on "free speech" occur--always in countries run by RIGHTWING governments--murders, death threats, fear, self-censorship--where are these alleged advocates of "free speech"?

Total silence.

They given themselves away as shills for the corporate broadcasters, who also have no interest in "free speech" for most people. Their only interest is CORPORATE speech, and they want all avenues of communication to blast corporate speech 24/7. Corporate speech to the exclusion of everyone else. Yes, the Chavez government has taken measures to regulate these corporate monsters who monopolize the public airwaves--as our government once did but no more. The public airwaves are a public resource and should be operated in the public interest, which means fairness to all viewpoints, and no rightwing/corporate monopolies and certainly no corporate monopolies controlling news and opinion while also profiting from war via their conglomerate subsidiaries, as we have here, and no rightwing/corporate monopolies that actively participate in coups against the elected government, as occurred in Venezuela! The government should also act to provide the general public and small producers and media businesses with access to the public airwaves, as the Chavez government is doing.

In truth, "free speech" has never been]/i] more alive than it is now in Venezuela.

Yet they keep ragging on Chavez, with this CORPORATE complaint, and ignore the MURDERS of journalists in U.S. corporate/war profiteer client states like Honduras and Colombia!