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Analysis: Media Watch

Your Anti-Chavez Corporate Media Decoder Ring

By The Outside Agitator, Mar 9th 2013

(AP/Ariana Cubillo)

The United States bourgeois press didn’t learn the cliche that “a lie told enough becomes the truth,” it practically invented that method.

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The BBC's 'Bogeyman' Narrative on Hugo Chavez

By News Unspun, Mar 8th 2013

Today's BBC article by Jon Kelly, 'Hugo Chavez and the era of anti-American bogeymen', takes a particularly spiteful slant on the issue of what is presented as 'Anti-Americanism' in Chavez's stance toward US foreign policy.

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Chavez: the Motive-Hunting of a Malignant NGO

By Joe Emersberger - ZCommunications, Mar 7th 2013

Human Rights Watch Americas Director José Miguel Vivanco

The death of Hugo Chavez provoked HRW to immediately (within hours) smear the Chavez government's legacy.

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In Death as in Life, Chávez Target of Media Scorn

By Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Mar 7th 2013

On March 6, the New York Post described Chavez as the "Venezuela bully"

Venezuela's left-wing populist president Hugo Chávez died on Tuesday, March 5, after a two-year battle with cancer. If world leaders were judged by the sheer volume of corporate media vitriol and misinformation about their policies, Chávez would be in a class of his own.

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Venezuela's Devaluation Doom-mongers

By Mark Weisbrot - The Guardian, Mar 5th 2013

Venezuela has changed the fixed exchange rate from 4.30 bolivars to the dollar to 6.30 bolivars to the dollar (Jorge Silva/Reute

Venezuela's recent devaluation has sparked quite a bit of discussion in the international press. The Venezuelan opposition has naturally framed it as desperate move to head off inevitable economic collapse.

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Ricardo Haussmann – A Reliable Commentator for the Guardian on Venezuela?

By Dr. Francisco Dominguez -Venezuela Solidarity Campaign UK , Mar 4th 2013

Ricardo Haussmann (dinero.com)

Last Monday the Guardian Comment is Free website carried a piece by Ricardo Haussmann on Venezuela entitled The legacy of Hugo Chávez: Low growth, high inflation, intimidation. But is Haussmann a reliable commentator for the Guardian on Venezuela?

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Chávez Haters Not “Limited by Truth, Reality or Common Sense”

By Dan Beeton - CEPR, Feb 28th 2013

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during a campaign rally in Guarenas, Venezuela, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. (Rodrigo Abd/AP

A new op-ed in the Guardian by Ricardo Hausmann portrays a dystopian fictional Venezuela, one in which the Venezuelan government has run the economy into the ground despite abundant oil wealth, but yet its charismatic president continues to be re-elected through some sort of sinister trickery.

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Little Credibility: U.S. Coverage of Iranian-Latin American Relations

By Michael Corcoran - NACLA, Feb 27th 2013

President Hugo Chavez (left) with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (centre) (archive).

Last January, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a weeklong tour of Latin America, visiting Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, and finally Ecuador. In the U.S. media, where there are no two greater villains than Ahmadinejad and Chávez, it was not hard to predict that the coverage of the first stop on the tour would result in an onslaught of negative headlines filled with hysterics at what such a meeting could mean for U.S. national security.

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Private Media on Chavez’ Health: 70 Days of Speculation and Necrophilia

By Ewan Robertson - Correo del Orinoco International , Feb 22nd 2013

The front page of Thursday 24 January’s print edition of El País (El País/HoV)

It seems that while the “ominous voices” will continue to speculate on Chavez’s health and try to create the impression of a “crisis” in Venezuela where and when they can, the surprise return and apparent improvement of the Venezuelan president has demonstrated the falsity of many of their claims, highlighting 70 days of speculation and necrophilia as exactly that.

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What if The New York Times Covered the United States Like Venezuela?

By Keane Bhatt – NACLA / Manufacturing Contempt, Feb 18th 2013

President Obama (White House)

The newspaper's reporting reinforces attitudes that Latin American politics can be little more than a primitive charade, starring authoritarian leaders and a hoodwinked public, punctuated by risible distractions. Thankfully—at least within the world of New York Times coverage—the “political theater of the absurd” isn’t “commonplace” here at home.

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Media Hate Fest for Venezuela Keeps on Keepin' on

By Mark Weisbrot - Al Jazeera, Jan 29th 2013

Spanish newspaper El Pais retracted its online and print editions after publishing on its front page a fake photo of Chavez usi

Last week there was a real media hate-fest for Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, with some of the more influential publications on both sides of the Atlantic really hating on the guy. Even by the hate-filled standards to which we have become accustomed, it was impressive.

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Fact-checking Rory Carroll on Venezuela

By The editors of News Unspun and Venezuelanalysis, Jan 28th 2013

The cover of the New Statesman

Carroll depicts an ailing 'autocrat' leaving behind a 'disparate ruling coalition' and a 'warping economy'. In this analysis of Carroll's contribution we have considered the premises behind a selection of his arguments and conducted some basic fact-checking, highlighting many inaccuracies in his analysis.

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Why Do Poor People Living in an Abandoned Skyscraper So Outrage the New Yorker?

By Jim Naureckas - FAIR, Jan 28th 2013

Jon Lee Anderson's latest piece for the New Yorker reads almost like a parody of corporate media coverage of an official enemy state.

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Spanish Paper El País Makes a Fool of Itself

By Hands off Venezuela, Jan 24th 2013

El País (AFP)

By printing an "exclusive" photograph purporting to show Chavez in hospital with a tube coming out of his mouth, which then turned out to be false, Spanish paper El País has made a fool out of itself.

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The Guardian vs. the Conventional Wisdom on Venezuela

By Alex Main - CEPR, Jan 17th 2013

Just as it appeared that the current conventional wisdom on Venezuela had spread and hardened irreversibly throughout the major media, on Monday the UK daily The Guardian published an editorial entitled “Venezuela, defying predictions – again.”  The piece deftly takes on a few commonly held views found in much of the media coverage of Venezuela.

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