It’s as easy as shooting fish in a barrel to find op-eds like this in Ultimas Noticias as I recently pointed out to a very surprised and misinformed CBC journalist. Relative to Venezuela’s population, the combined daily circulation of Ultimas Noticias and three other newspapers that are even more critical of the government (El Universal, El National and Tal Qual) is about the same as the combined daily circulation of The New York Times, the Wall Street journal, USA Today and the LA Times.
Antonio Ledezma writes on April 3 about “brutal repression, executed by paramilitary groups employed by the regime and who serve the official military men who risk being denounced for crimes against humanity now that there is an International Criminal Court”
Moreover, a detailed study of Venezuela’s TV media done by the Carter Center in 2013, showed that government opponents are given ample presence in the TV media. And as Mark Weisbrot explained here, the Carter Center probably underestimated the opposition’s presence on TV. The New York Times was recently forced to retract its claim that Globovision was the only Venezuelan TV network to “regularly broadcast voices critical of the government”. That’s progress, but after years of misinformation, even well intentioned journalists will tend to uncritically accept what reporters like Virginia Lopez and outfits like RSF say about the Venezuelan media.
Aseguró que es la “pista más prometedora” hasta ahora. Recibió dos señales. La primera duró dos horas y 20 minutos antes de que se perdiera. El barco dio la vuelta y detectó la segunda durante 13 minutos.
La búsqueda del vuelo de Malaysia Airlines se centra ahora en dos áreas del océano Índico en las que se detectaron lo que podrían ser señales acústicas de la caja negra.
Dos señales separadas, captadas por un barco chino y uno australiano, han sido definidas por los expertos como las pistas más prometedoras desde que el vuelo MH370 desapareció sin dejar rastros el 8 de marzo.