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New National Progressive Newspaper Goes to Print in Venezuela
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Mérida, September 2nd 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) - On Sunday the first edition of the new progressive national newspaper, the Correo del Orinoco (Orinoco Post) came out. The colour, tabloid paper of 23 pages will be daily and cost 1 bolivar (US$ 0.45), and aim to provide realistic coverage of the processes of change in Venezuela, said its editor, Vanessa Davies.
The newspaper is named after the Orinoco Post created by liberation fighter Simon Bolivar in 1818, which had a similar aim of promoting independence and countering the news manipulations emitted by occupying Spain.
The sections of the paper include news of the day, opinion, politics, parliamentary debate, economy, popular power, science, interviews, international news, culture, regional news, sports, and a legal section, and will be on sale in news kiosks across the country.
In his opinion piece in the newspaper, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said the paper should counter "media terrorism" and "should be guided by the principle that the liberator Simon Bolivar expressed in the first edition of the Orinoco post, that is, ‘We are free, we write in a free country, and do not intend to deceive the public.'"
Journalist and university lecturer Arlenin Aguillon said about the new paper, "We promise before the country and the world that we won't deceive the people. The opposition media needs to lie and manipulate, because they have to hide the large projects of the government, the [social] missions, all the policies of inclusion."
According to Vanessa Davies, a leader of the United Socialist Party (PSUV) and editor of the newspaper, it is not a government paper. Davies characterised it as "a progressive daily committed to the country and the Venezuelan and Latin American revolution, whose main objective is the defence of the people and a realistic vision of the process of change in the country."
Davies said the newspaper would circulate soon in Colombia and would also eventually be published in other languages.
Published on Sep 2nd 2009 at 3.13pm
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Battle of Ideas
This is a long-overdue project -- especially that it's going to be coming out in english, etc., too. And that would have to be online as well, right..? An independent PSUV daily or weekly newspaper is still called-for, however. And a monthly Party theoretical journal as well. These too are long-overdue 'must-haves'.
It is penny wise & pound foolish to be continually short-changing the propaganda/information arm of any Revolution. And I don't think anyone reading this would need much convincing over how much of imperialism's power comes simply from its control over what the Western masses see and hear every day.