Analysis: Media Watch

A Hall of Shame for Venezuelan Elections Coverage

By Keane Bhatt - NACLA, Oct 9th 2012

Chavez's victory speech on Sunday night (Tamara Pearson/ Venezuelanalysis.com)

The establishment media which broadly anticipated that Sunday's election would be a repudiation of the Chávez administration’s policies, were proved wrong. Bhatt systematically examines the mainstream media's lies and distortions leading up to the election.

Venezuelan Election Day: Channel 4 Selects Pro-Opposition Viewpoints

By News Unspun , Oct 7th 2012

The BBC underplayed the size of Chavez’s final campaign rally in Caracas (laiguana)

British news is today (07/10/2012) much concerned with the elections underway in Venezuela. The election will be the 'closest since Hugo Chavez took power' (The Guardian), or the 'the country's most tightly contested presidential election in a decade' (BBC). To begin with, it should be noted that the above assertions are themselves misleading to a UK readership: even if the election is 'the closest' since 1998 in Venezuela, polling figures are such that if similar results were to be found in a UK election, the race would not be considered close.

Lies, Half Truths and Bias: The World’s Media and the Venezuelan Election

By Jorge Martín – Hands Off Venezuela, Oct 5th 2012

Global mainstream media has engaged in coordinated campaign of disinformation regarding Venezuela’s 7 October presidential ele

Once again there has been a remarkably well coordinated campaign of disinformation regarding the Venezuelan presidential elections on Sunday October 7.

Why the US Demonises Venezuela's Democracy

By Mark Weisbrot – The Guardian UK, Oct 4th 2012

Hugo Chavez at a campaign march in Yaracuy on Tuesday (VTV)

Venezuela is about to hold impeccably free and fair elections, yet the US treats it as a dictatorship.

UK Academics Call for End to Media Misrepresentation about Polls in Venezuela’s Election

By Venezuela Solidarity Campaign UK, Oct 3rd 2012

The chart above shows the breakdown between Hugo Chavez and Henrique Capriles Radonski and is based on all those who gave a pref

Ahead of Sunday’s Presidential election in Venezuela, a number of academics have called on sections of the UK media to end its misrepresentation about the polls in Venezuela.

The Skewed Reporting on the Venezuelan Elections

By Josh Watts / Editors Blog - News Unspun, Sep 28th 2012

Hugo Chavez on a campaign rally in the northern state of Falcon on Wednesday (VTV)

In these two articles, News Unspun examines unbalanced reportage in the liberal British press on the Venezuelan presidential election.

Manipulators and Media Prepare to Intervene in Venezuela

By James Jordan- AFGJ, Sep 25th 2012

"Bush's Archenemy", a typical manipulation by US private media (ABC)

With elections in Venezuela less than three weeks away, the Alliance for Global Justice is deeply concerned about the possibilities for US interference in the country’s electoral affairs.

Opposition Lawmaker Maria Corina Machado Makes Miami Headlines

By Correo del Orinoco International , Aug 17th 2012

Maria Corina Machado
(vencedorenboyaca2.blogspot.com)

In another attempt to discredit Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of the country’s most reactionary right-wing lawmakers recently issued a set of “warnings” that her country is allegedly developing a massive “guerrilla army” to fight against the United States.

Freedom is Slavery, Popular Support is Authoritarianism

By Lizzie Phelan, Jul 26th 2012

José Miguel Vivanco, Director of Human Rights Watch for the Americas (Agencies)

A recent article by The Washington Post’s Juan Forero, entitled Latin America’s new authoritarians, is just the latest example of how the imperialists’ media machine is relentlessly engaged in media warfare against sovereign nations in the South

Media Rage and Mainstream Lies about Venezuela

By Tamara Pearson – Venezuelanalysis.com, Jul 18th 2012

So, I’ve decided there’s a new kind of rage; along the lines of car rage, or mosquito rage (inadequately swearing at that unlocateable and constant buzz somewhere in the vicinity of your head) and I’ve dubbed it ‘mainstream media rage’. It’s a product of reading, every morning, the Google alert list of English articles published about Venezuela,

Our Man in Caracas: The U.S. Media and Henrique Capriles

By Keane Bhatt - Nacla, Jun 19th 2012

Henrique Capriles with supporters (agencies)

Bhatt critiques AP, Reuters, and Miami Times heavily biassed and manipulative coverage of the recent huge marches by Henrique Capriles and Hugo Chavez to register as candidates in the upcoming presidential elections.

Rather’s False Reporting on Venezuela & President Hugo Chavez

By Eva Golinger, Jun 1st 2012

President Hugo Chavez looking well just a few days ago (nuevodiario)

Since Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was diagnosed with cancer and a malignant tumor was removed from his pelvic region last June, all kinds of rumors, lies and speculations have circulated about his health...

Media & Opposition: False Perceptions of Venezuela’s Democracy

By Rachael Boothroyd - Correo del Orinoco International , May 25th 2012

Venezuela’s Barrio Adentro health program provides free healthcare to Venezuela’s poor, and free, community based training f

Earlier this week Al Jazeera English published an article by Nikolas Kozloff. The focus of Kozloff’s latest article was the Cuban-Venezuelan “Barrio Adentro” initiative, a social mission which provides free healthcare to Venezuela’s poor, and free, community based training for Venezuelan medical students.

Grassroots Media in Contemporary Venezuela: The Battle of the CPC (Centro de Poder Communal)

By Robin Garcia, May 17th 2012

(Patriagrande)

International presses often criticize the Venezuelan government on issues around the freedom of the press, however, Venezuela has democratized its media outlets so that all communities can enjoy their right to freedom of speech. In this respect, Venezuela is far ahead of most nations when it comes to promoting free and accessible media.

CNN: The Latest Outlet for Roger Noriega’s Paranoid Speculations

By Keane Bhatt - Nacla, May 15th 2012

On May 2, CNN executive producer Arthur Brice published a 4,300-word screed, titled “Chavez Health Problems Plunge Venezuela’s Future Into Doubt,” little more than a platform for the bizarre theories of Roger Noriega, a diplomat under George W. Bush.