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So long, RCTV...

Started by JongWK, May 28, 2007, 10:22:08 PM

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JongWK

May 28, 2007, 10:22:08 PM
Another voice goes down in Venezuela, and only Globovision remains... for now.

Final moments of RCTV here.
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Werekoala

#1
May 28, 2007, 11:22:02 PM
I thought Bush was the one stifling dissent by shutting down TV stations, closing newspapers, and killing anyone who dared speak out against him.

I mean, that's what they keep telling us...
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Drew

#2
May 29, 2007, 03:28:20 AM
That's a shame, although I feel somewhat embarassed that on reading the thread title my first thought was "Rules Cyclopedia TV"...
 

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May 29, 2007, 11:25:56 AM
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May 29, 2007, 09:22:09 PM
Quote from: WerekoalaI thought Bush was the one stifling dissent by shutting down TV stations, closing newspapers, and killing anyone who dared speak out against him.

I mean, that's what they keep telling us...
Oh, come on. That's like me saying Micheal Savage is the one, true voice of conservatives. Anyone can pick on what idiots say, and those are the left's idiots. Don't try to turn every post into a bash on your political opponents.

That said, Chavez is a fucking crook. The silencing of the media is a godamn sham. It's awful, and the Venezualians have my sincere condolences for having such an asshole in charge.
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JongWK

#5
June 02, 2007, 03:04:22 PM
RCTV's main news program, El Observador, is moving to YouTube.

Interesting development.
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Werekoala

#6
June 02, 2007, 03:47:39 PM
This is just a logical extension of the "Information wants to be free" meme. It'll be progressively harder for repressive societies to keep their people in the dark with the spread of teh intarweb. That is of course a good thing.
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June 02, 2007, 04:13:07 PM
Damn right. People are funny in that they don't realize what an astoundingly historically significant and humanity-changing invention the internet really is.  People will one day look back at the 90s and the creation of the internet the way we now do the Gutenberg printing press.

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June 02, 2007, 04:37:19 PM
Gotta Love the US Defense Department ;)

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James J Skach

#9
June 02, 2007, 04:39:25 PM
Oh, and on topic...

It's interesting to me that, with everything that has been going on there, the this is the thing that's got the place in the uproar.

Is this wrong?  Is there always an uproar and this is just making it into the world press cause it's a TV station? Is this just the straw that breaks the camels back?

Why now?

I'm truly curious...
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Werekoala

#10
June 02, 2007, 06:10:52 PM
Because its a very public and very in-your-face way of saying "I'm not going to put up with dissent" - and that just makes people want to dissent even more.

That's my take on it at least.

The trick is, don't shut down the media. Let'em rip you if they want - but just keep doing what you're going to do anyway. Works great here in the US. :)
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