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Hetzelfde station die hun beelden vervalste tijdens de couppoging?

Daarover en over US inmenging schrijft de Amerikaanse Columnist Phil H. in Unknown News:
http://www.unknownnews.org/070106-Chavez-RCTV.html

In any other country (notably our own bastion of 'democracy' in the US), a television network that openly engaged in the same sort of agitation against their democratically-elected president as RCTV did would find its entire staff, from mailroom to CEO, imprisoned for treason.
It speaks well of Chavez' character that his only action is to deny them permission to continue broadcasting lies, while his very life is at stake.
I can easily imagine Fox News trying sh*t like this against a Democratic president, but even today I can't believe they'd get away with it. But what do you suppose would happen to a US network that engaged in these practices against George W. Bush? Do you think they'd merely lose their jobs?
RCTV was the first to broadcast the false claim that Chavez supporters were shooting at opposition demonstrators, which then served as a justification for high level generals to declare their disobedience to the government, also on RCTV.
RCTV then had exclusive interviews with coup plotters and the talk show host Napoleon Bravo read Chavez's supposed resignation letter on RCTV. Later it turned out that the letter was never signed by Chavez and that he had actually not resigned at all, but had been taken into custody.
When the coup began to falter and thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in support of Chavez, RCTV refused to provide any news coverage of the developments and switched from 24-hour news coverage to the broadcasting of old cartoons and movies instead.
Other reasons Chavez and his supporters refer to RCTV as a coup-plotting channel are because it also supported the December 2002 shutdown of the oil industry that was designed to force Chavez from office. At the time RCTV (along with Globovision) gave free advertising time to the opposition, broadcasting these in lieu of commercial advertising, urging citizens to support the so-called general strike. Also, during the August 2004 presidential recall referendum, RCTV refused to accept pro-Chavez advertisements.
The coup against Chavez on April 11, 2002 is unique in history, as the entire event was filmed from inside the presidential palace by documentary filmmakers who happened to be in Caracas to make a movie about Chavez' populist Bolivarian revolution. Their film can be watched on-line for free, and is available for download on bit torrent sites in higher resolution formats.
It's really an amazing look inside the machinations of the US and Venezuelan elite against Chavez. After seeing it, you'll be amazed that he let RCTV off the hook at all.
Phill.H