[Peace-discuss] Re: Frontline, Venezuela

[Jenifer Cartwright]

John,
I think the point of the Counterpunch article is that -- while some of us hope for more objective reporting on PBS than what is typically found in the MSM (which generally disses Venezuela/left-leaning Latin American countries in general and Hugo Chavez in particular) -- the Frontline program ("The Hugo Chavez Show"), to be aired on PBS tonite at 8p, the reporting is anything but objective/pretty much a smear... and author Patrick Irelan muses about the connection between the negative reporting and the fact that PBS is heavily funded by Big Oil (which includes the US- but NOT the Venezuelan oil industry). And, though I haven't seen the program as yet myself, I am wondering right along with him if PBS should not indeed be considered The Petroleum Broadcasting System.
 
And Dave's point (if I may) is that instead of bothering to watch the show, viewers can just find a pinata of Chavez and have at it. 
 --Jenifer 

--- On Tue, 11/25/08, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: Frontline, Venezuela
To: "David Green" <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 2:33 PM


Gosh, I must be stupid.  I didn't understand the cynicism in the Counterpunch article, and I don't understand it on this list.   It just seems to be generalized cynicism, a propos of nothing.  Whom do we hate here?  Chavez?  Filmmakers who attempt to make films about Chavez?  Filmmakers who are not perfectly biased in the precise ways that the Counterpunch author is biased?  What?

John Wason



On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:





http://www.counterpunch.org/irelan11252008.html
 
One might use the time better to build a pinata and pound it with a baseball bat.
 
DG







Check-out PBS Frontline tomorrow ( Tuesday ) at 8pm, about Hugo Chavez.
 
It will probably be the usual PBS hatchet job propoganda, sugar coated in a fascade of  supposed" intellectual objectivity ", that has the corporate agenda as it's purpose.
 
But it may still be worth a look for curiosity sake.
 
David Johnson
 
Check-out PBS Frontline tomorrow ( Tuesday ) at 8pm, about Hugo Chavez.
 
It will probably be the usual PBS hatchet job propoganda, sugar coated in a fascade of  supposed" intellectual objectivity ", that has the corporate agenda as it's purpose.
 
But it may still be worth a look for curiosity sake.
 
David Johnson
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