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Venezuela Revokes CNN Journalist Credentials Amid "War Propaganda"
"The CNN team was informed that their correspondent credentials were revoked," Venezuela's Information Ministry vice-president Francisco Perez stated. Ironically, for CNN, the decision was announced vis Perez' Twitter account, following Maduro's proclamations last night that "Enough! I won't accept war propaganda against Venezuela." Interestingly, given the opposition's need to raise the awareness among the 'poor' in Venezuela if they are to succeed, local television networks have provided almost no live coverage of the protests against Maduro. While just one "journalist" has his credentials revoked, Maduro has threatened, to expel the whole network from the country if it did not "rectify" the way it has covered deadly political protests.
Via Reuters,
"I've asked the (information) minister to tell CNN we have started the administrative process to remove them from Venezuela if they don't rectify (their behavior)," Maduro said on state TV.
"Enough! I won't accept war propaganda against Venezuela."
"We do not have an official comment at this time on President Maduro's most recent comments about CNN," Bridget Leininger, a CNN spokeswoman, said in an email to Reuters.
Local television networks have provided almost no live coverage of the protests against Maduro, which began last month over a wide range of complaints including inflation, violent crime, corruption and shortages of basic products. As result, many opposition supporters have turned to CNN Espanol, available to some cable TV subscribers, which in recent days has been the only television to offer live broadcasts of opposition press conferences.
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Yawnnnnnnnnn
Maybe the only smart thing Maduro has done.
i'm not sure you can say revoking CNN credentials is like revoking the credentials of journalists
do i really need to cite examples?
Just interview the CIA. They can tell you how it will end. The entire operation is their creation.
It's hard to argue with someone who is asserting CNN is war propaganda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWY14eyMFg
fake CNN gulf war coverage if you forgot
No CNN?
Implemented that policy in my house years ago.
Not that I don't watch from time to time, but I have not had cable television in my home for aobut 15 years and don't miss it.
That and I'm too lazy to put up an antenna to catch the local news.
i go to CNN for news about as often as i go to Casey Anthony for parenting advice .....
New Syrian TV Footage Exposes CNN Falsification and Coordination with Terrorists in Homs
"The footage broadcast on Thursday, which filmed the process of sabotaging an oil transfer pipeline in al-Sulaymanieh region in Homs countryside by armed terrorist groups, revealed that the camera operators were CNN correspondents who entered Syria illegally through the Lebanese borders and seemed to have coordinated with the saboteurs to film a video of the attack and send it to their channel."
"While Damon was reporting live on the CNN that claimed that the Syrian army was behind the attack to deflect suspicion of any coordination, if not to say involvement, with the terrorist saboteurs, the same footage- proved by comparisons highlighted by the Syrian TV, was then screened live from the same camera which seemed to have been set up a day before the attack in a place where the attack can be filmed."
"A similar comparison had previously been made between a report by another CNN correspondent Danny Dayem who claimed that al-Khalidiyeh region in Homs was being bombarded and a footage of Danny showing how he was coordinating sound effects of shooting and shelling with his team to attack to his reporting."
"Faced with criticisms by several U.S. TV channels, newspapers and websites over its correspondent's fabrication, the CNN was forced to conduct an interview with Danny claiming he was an activist and not one of its staff and to obliterate a photo of him taken along with the channel's team of correspondents in Homs."
Exposed: Danny Abdul-Dayem & CNN Lying...Again - Video
"Just interview the CIA. They can tell you how it will end. The entire operation is their creation."
Yeah right it's all the CIA's fault? The fact that Hugo Chavez, Maduro, and their leftist cronies have destroyed the Venzuelan economy while enriching themselves has nothing to do with the civil unrest?
Dontcha know, if ain't Obama's fault, then its the CIA....
And if it is the CIA, then it must be Obama's fault...
Also known as Sophistry a la Zero Hedge....
Poor CNN will have to shut down their brand new Venezuelan "green screen" production offices. Oh where, oh where will Piers Morgan do his "live" interviews now?!
"At some point propagandists become part of the crimes."
Wait, are you saying that asshat Piers Morgan does not practice responsible journalism? Yeah, I guess stealing peoples personal communications is solely the domain of the NSA.
Bad boy Piers, bad ;-)
Maduro needs to understand that all this war mongering is just for local American public consumption.
He should have just sent gubbamin researchers to monitor the network instead...
I wonder if Rick Perry can revoke CNN's credentials in Texas?
Can Rick even spell CNN, let alone remember the letters?
Thanks for the belly laugh flak!
pods
Apparently Rick can, however, spell "TSA" just fine.
Whatever comes out of this Venezualean spiral into oblivion, I can asssure that the US will go Monroe on their asses....
Too much oil at stake....
Ooops... Just in 1-0 Canada
We hate CNN here on Zero Hedge, right?
And virtually all other MSM. RT and Al Jazeerra usually get a pass, but not always.
ya well your on the MSM right now seek
Copyright ©2009-2013 ZeroHedge.com/ABC Media, LTD; All Rights Reserved.
How many times do we have to go over that already, numbskull?
It is NOT the same "ABC Media" as in the USA! It is an entirely separate organization, and outside of the USA.
The term easily fooled sheeple does seem appropriate in this context....
ABC Media is based in Bulgaria, with servers in Bulgaria and Switzerland, if I'm not mistaken.
"This is not the ABC Media you are looking for." ;-)
You forgot Iran's Press TV. They get free passes here too.
As a benchmark, simply use the Bieber-Lohan Index to determine journalistic relevance...
I don't think Amy Goodman has ever mentioned either Bieber or Lohan.
But she's a socialist, isn't she?
My brain is hurting today, Flaky.
Take two hotpockets and call me in the morning.
I think I live in a state where I'm not supposed to do that.
But you're the doctor.
;)
I hope this was covered under my Obamacare plan.
Given that this is the Olympic season, did you finish in the Medals?
(: Go go Canada :)
LMAO!
Our oligarchs own our broadcast networks and print media so they can misinform the people. This is why a supposed democracy keeps them firmly in power.
Nothing at all to do with letting a few corporate entities completely dominate the media?
Do you think that happened by accident?
Of course not.
Good, so then it should be easy to determine when the regulatory changes that allowed this occured...
Would you like a list of them and who was pushing for them?
It is easy enough to google it...
Start with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
Who knew there were still any journalists left at CNN?
seriously
Truly sad isn't it?
Now, if they would just revoke them here in the USSA. There hasn't been any news reporting journalism at CNN for years. Government mouthpiece at best.
Shortly after CNN was in every airport, waiting room, bar/resturant, they were coverted to a propoganda network. Very sad to watch actually.
Yeah, they would revoke the credentials of Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper and Piers Morgan - but they would have to be journalists to begin with.
There is always hope that Erin could do some low budget lesbian porn?
pods
So she'll be joining the Hillary 2016 campaign?
Mark my words, Hillary running is a suicide move for them.
I thought she got out of porn when she left CNBC.
That fucking Big Brother-loving Morgan should take a long walk on a short piers (and into a vat of acid).
Wow...no government minders down there...no sireee bob...just chunk em out.
Sit up and take notice O'Barry...this is how its done!!! ;-)
Just how fucked up is it when journalists from CNN aren't socialist enough for your needs?
Yep. Wonder how the libtards at CNN feel now that their fellow comrades have turned on them. First Obama freezes out the press now Maduro.
Wonder if the libtard dumbfucks in the press are having any buyers remorse?
Buyers remorse, no way!!! With Obama, they have their defender of gay marraige, drugs, abortions, illegal immigration, free phones, free health care, free food, free disability, all the things that to them make America exceptional.
CNN, like most of our media, are owned by American oligarchs. If you think our oligarchs are socalists, then you are a fool.
No, they are crony facists. In the end, they are collectivist bankster/oligarchs and it is hard to tell the difference.
Apparently another value shared between Venzuela and the Obama regime. No opposition, only MSM in support of his authoritarian government.
Stop commenting on issues of which you know nothing about. You just come across as really stupid. Chavez, and then Maduro have won democratic elections over, and over, and over again. The mass population don't like being ruled by the parasitic, rent extracting Oligarchs.
These protests are not organic. The opposition leader is the same asshole who tried to topple Chavez in 2002. He's an tool off the neoliberal, Chicago school of economics PTB. Steal public wealth and socialize private debt.
And I would ask you to do the same.
Winning some supposedly "democratic' election, especially in this corrupted and politically perverted day and age, is demonstrably no measure of either intergrity, intelligence or even sanity. In fact, one could make an excellent argument that winning elections nowadays necessitates demonstrating, and acting on, precisely the opposite of all of those qualities.
So in other words, you have nothing to add. Stop being a tool for the Oligarchs.
Sure blow hard, I know nothing about it. Thanks for telling me what I know and what I don't know.
Apparently you have a reading comprehension problem, my point was that those in power are willing to control the media to try to stay in power, concerns of the people be damned.
Have a nice day pumpkin!
No dumbass. Apparently you have the comprehension problem, and it starts with Venezuelan history. Trying to equate the Oligarchs attempting to topple a democratically elected government with some political tribal bullshit is plain stupid.
Because a vast majority of South and Central American countries haven't been prone to military/political coup for various reasons.
Look dickhead, I have firsthand and inside information about some of the history in South America from families which were involved directly in the struggle of the people against the military controllers at the time. Enough that I can compare it against the "international news" and the other side.
Feel free to fuck off, before telling me I don't understand. Struggle for power, same as it's always been. Whether organic or fomented.
Stay on topic. Venezuela. They kicked out the Oligarchs, and you advocate reinstating them. You're an economic illiterate and a coward. The Venezuelan people have more courage in their spit than you in an entire body. Don't project your weakness on them.
Yep 20 years in banking and I'm an eCONomic illiterate.
Let me end our little discourse with.....FUCK OFF DIPSHIT!
Are you really admitting you are a banker???
Now that take balls, especially around here...
So how does it feel to be a parasite, I bet you are probably even more overpaid than UAW union assholes...
I was one of the good guys, not the scumbags. I had ethics and pride in my work. I retired after 2008 when I saw what had been done to the whole system by the scumbags at the top. And yes I have balls, which is what it took to throw aside a 20+ year career based on principles.
Once again you're wrong in your assessments!!
"Stay on topic. Venezuela. They kicked out the Oligarchs."
Yep, Venezuela's free shit army kicked out the oligarchs and instead they got corrupt, neo-Marxist fascist dictators like Hugo Chavez and Maduro who bankrupted the country while enriching themselves.
Hugo Chavez's daughters have refused to move out of presidential palace and they hold 'deafening' parties as protesters die on the streets of Venezuela.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2564825/Hugo-Chavezs-daughters-r...
Democratic elections over and over.. thats funny
For those who no nothing of these issues
between the 3 assholes in question who has the biggest neoliberal tool?
Irony here is CNN is the most soft-ball sycophant news org ever.
But is the sycophantry equal-opportunity?
Are the socialist designs of socialist Maduro incompatible with the socialist designs of socialist Obama?
Is there a score card or something that I can refer to?
I think you are in the wrong pool...
The adult swim is in the one to the right...
I've been having a hard time 'round here the last few days.
Oh, me of little faith.
Is "Zero Hedge" German?
Dunno, ever seen Nullhecke used here?
Since when has Liberty been a purely German affair? I find that pretty racist and insulting. You of all people whom would jump on any lesser for doing the same against people of Herbrew descent
\facepalm....
The Corrupt Non-News Network has journalists??? Now that's a laugher. I thought people playing make-believe and reciting ficticious monologues of propaganda written for them by other people were called "actors". Bad actors, to be more precise.
EDIT: or fag CIA operatives like Anderson Pooper
Uncommonly clever potty humor, at least for a 6 year old...
Is this the outcome of the FCC's new CIN proram?
Remember when James Rubin's (state department spokesman) wife, Christiane Amanpour, was "reporting" on CNN during 1990s demanding US intervention in the Balkans. CNN war propagandist?! Never!
How about that Crack reporter Andrea Mitchell. Alan Greenspan's wife, Giving an in depth report on how the Fed's policy is affecting "The little people"
What's a few dead civilians when your political ambitions are at stake? I mean, really. CNN could be a little more sensitive to the government's point of view. /sarc
CNN? I have long called the the Cable Neocon Network. And for good reason. They do not report or investigate news stories. They are the official organ of State Propaganda for the US Government and for the Military Industrial Complex, of which we know all about.
Lies and propaganda spew forth in a torrent of filth all generated at the US State Department, in the board rooms of defense contractors, inside the AIPAC headquarters and Obama White House.
Not only is CNN a lie factory. They operate as an official mouth piece for the state of Israel. The Israeli propaganda is just part and parcel of the daily CNN lie fest. These highly paid, so called, reporters, simply speak what Israel and the White House tell them to. No matter, Bush or Obama, CNN is their platform to lie to the US public.
CNN is a disgrace to themselves, if that were even possible. Switch on CNN and sit back an absorb what the US Goverment, Israel and Military contractors want to you hear and then believe. CNN is like the view screens in Orwell's 1984.
I have been to Russia way back when it was the USSR, their propaganda was amatuer, compared to CNN.
I knew I could count on the commentors to somehow divert this into a Israel discussion.....
Dont get your foreskin all verklempt.
I guess Russian prisons are amateur too, then. After all, apparently the USSR was such a great place, they had no one in jail for political reasons either.
Our prisons are the best and most profitable in the world.
edit: oops - I'm an American. I would apologize for assuming that was understood, but, well, you know.
And based on how well liberals are educating their constituents in the big cities, this industry has a great future ahead of it then.....
I think it's conservatives who own the majority of the prison profits.
Stupid liberals!
Ugh... you fell right into the red/blue trap ;(
I think it was the liberals who stepped in that one.
don't worry folks. Anderson Cooper has pledged to travel to Venezuela and he will bring his nose with him this time.
don't worry folks. Anderson Cooper has pledged to travel to Venezuela and he will bring his nose with him this time.
Does Maduro honestly think Americans give a shit about what's happening in Venzuela? If we don't care about Syria or Ukraine, why would we give a shit about his country? Venezuela made its socialist bed and can sleep in it. Wake me up when it's over.
We need to ban CNN from the United States...it's nothing but commie, anti-white, leftwing horseshit.
I wonder if Maduro himself believes that in a country without toilet paper and food and rampant inflation, the riots are caused by CNN reporters amd without them everyone would be happy.
Rulers, such a sorry bunch of intellectual losers