People recognize his name and smell a mile away.
What is Phil Gunson smoking?
http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/2006/11/what_is_phil_gunson_smoking.html~~~~~~~~~Responses to Journalist magazine article
~snip~
Nigel Fountain's journalist friend, who has been labelled a "State Department agent" by the Venezuelan government, is Phil Gunson, who writes for The Economist, a publication which has openly advocated "regime change" in Venezuela - the illegal overthrow of a democratically elected government. Gunson still operates freely, has suffered no consequences for his relentless anti-Chavez propaganda drive and finds his work more widely distributed now than every before.
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/nuj_hov_response.htm~~~~~~~~~ Bandits, psychopaths, liars and baby-killers… by Oscar Heck
~snip~
Who is Phil Gunson?
First, this is Izarra’s public response to Phil Gunson: “Mr. Gringo we are going to defeat you again … we work with the truth, we have moral and above all, a leader that unites and inspires us … We say to the US Empire: you shall not pass. Viva Chavez!”
So .. who is this person?
I do not know – but if Izarra is upset with him, there must be a reason – and a good one.
According to Venezuelatoday.net (a rabidly anti-Chavez site):
“Phil Gunson is a British journalist and president of the Foreign Press Association in Venezuela. He has covered Latin America for 26 years and has been based in Caracas for the last six. Formerly Latin America correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer, he’s currently writing primarily for The Miami Herald, Newsweek, The St. Petersburg Times, The Independent and VOA News.”
VOA is “Voice of America” a “worldwide” news source and media outlet. Last year I met with a Moroccan telecommunications engineer who confirmed to me that VOA is run by the CIA … he worked for them.
Phil Gunson also writes for the Miami Herald, one of the main promoters of anti-Chavez commentaries, propaganda, lies and distortions, along with the Washington Post and The Devil’s Excrement, Militares Democraticos (sic!), Gente del Petroleo and/or equivalent hate sites.
More:
http://www.williambowles.info/venezuela/2005/bandits.html~~~~~~~~~ A Brit Reporter’s Undisclosed Venezuela Conflicts
Phil Gunson refers to himself as a “freelance correspondent” in Venezuela. He has written during the past month for the Miami Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, MSNBC (online only) and the Independent of London. He has also been interviewed recently on NPR and on WAMU radio in Washington DC about the events in Venezuela (parts of those interviews are quoted below).
The two men have a relationship related to Gunson’s “journalism” that – after they were given the opportunity to come clean by Narco News – neither Gunson nor Ekvall were willing to disclose.
Additionally, Gunson has an undisclosed conflict of interest, or at least the appearance of a conflict of interest (all journalistic codes of ethics prohibit such nondisclosure), with the key source that he quoted last April 11th to blame the still unsolved sniper assassinations of that day on supporters of the government of President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela: His source for that uncorroborated statement – part of the justification for the coup d’etat – was Eurídice Ledezma, who Gunson has told sources (but did not disclose in his article) was his former girlfriend; a rapidly pro-coup reporter in Venezuela, also – coincidentally? – a vocal defender of Dictator-for-a-day Pedro Carmona.
Asked about this apparent conflict, Gunson sent a “response” to Narco News (published in full and uncensored below) in which he issued no denial or clarification of that serious allegation. He simply did not address it at all.
There are other serious problems with Gunson’s reports out of Venezuela last April and again this month. Many of his statements appear to us to have been made in a knowingly false manner.
More:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue27/article572.html~~~~~~~~~ Media Response to Venezuelan Elections
by Stephen Lendman
Friday, 28 November 2008
~snip~
A Sane Voice in the Wilderness
On November 22, the London Independent published "Letters: In praise of Hugo Chavez." One confronted Latin American writer Phil Gunson's "bleak picture" of Venezuela in his article titled: "Tough-talking Chavez faces rising dissent." It was grossly inaccurate, mentioned the usual kinds of criticisms, and pretty much read like the US and Venezuelan corporate media agitprop.
The writer asked: If Gunson is right, "why are President Chavez's approval ratings at 58%, as he reports." He doesn't mention "how (his) government has delivered free healthcare to millions of people for the first time, eradicated illiteracy and used the country's best economic performance for decades to halve the poverty levels."
Suggesting that poll results may trigger a "violent reaction....turn(s) reality on its head. It was the Chavez government itself that was briefly the victim of an opposition-led military coup in 2002. In contrast, (his) government has showed a consistent commitment to democracy....Moreover, last week the respected Latinbarametro survey showed that Venezuela is now the country with the greatest support for democracy in Latin America and the region's second-most satisfied with the functioning of its democracy. Venezuela's combination of democracy and social progress under Chavez has inspired widespread support."
It's signed by Colin Burgon, MP, Chair, Labour Friends of Venezuela group of MPs, House of Commons. He adds more as well, and the Independent published it. It's unlike major US broadsheets that cover Chavez one way - with venomous inaccuracy and very rare exceptions that hardly draw notice.
More:
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2008/112808Lendman.shtmlETC.
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