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Happy Monday, everyone!
Warning – don’t watch this before having your Monday morning coffee. I’m just gonna refrain from commenting on this one because I think y’all can do a much better job at it than I can. All I can say is...
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What happened inside Cadena Capriles?, by @TamoaC
Two weeks ago, this blog reported about the open case of censorship at Ultimas Noticias, Venezuela’s most popular newspaper, and the protest of their journalist staff. The stand-off ended with the...
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The war on journalists gets worse
Yesterday, during the violent rampage by pro-government thugs inside the Universidad Central de Venezuela, several journalists were harrassed, and saw their equipment stolen. Since last month, attacks...
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Relying on the newsprint of neighbors (2nd Update)
As more visible forms of pressure against the media are gaining in prominence, the newsprint shortage faced by most newspapers in Venezuela (which I coined Newsprint-geddon) is still on the march. On...
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Will De Lima’s Ouster Stop the Rot at Últimas Noticias?
The reported firing of former Anzoategui State Governor David DeLima as chairman of Grupo Últimas Noticias (fomerly known as Cadena Capriles) after only three months on the job looks like an...
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The thin and the thick of it
There are many things that are fat in Venezuela. The people are fat, mostly as a result of a terrible diet. And Diosdado Cabello’s wallet is fat. But there are also a number of things that are thin,...
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The Slow Agony of Grupo Últimas Noticias
Two more high-profile journalists have been fired from what remains the largest newspaper group in Venezuela, Grupo Últimas Noticias (GÚN) were fired this Monday: Erys Alvarado, the newsroom’s...
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“Media Plot:” The hegemony’s permanent excuse
Last week, the government organized a high-profile conference about what they like to call “the media plot against Venezuela.” This was the usual blame-it-all-on-the-Evil-Empire gig, with a few minor...
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Telesur will now talk Güachington too
Last weekend, Nicolas Maduro announced in Bolivia that Telesur, the news/propaganda channel created in 2005 by Venezuela and its allies to “promote Latin American integration” will start broadcasting...
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Public service announcements, Venezuela-style
As I was watching the Cameroon-Croatia World Cup match on local TV Wednesday night, I was forced to endure this commercial from Barrio Alerta, a name used by the so-called “Simón Bolívar Cultural...
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Disbanded, but not without honor
A hat tip to Ultimas Noticias’ former investigation team for receiving the award for best investigative report from IPYS (Instituto Prensa y Sociedad). Congrats to César Batiz, Airam Fernández, Lisette...
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The toughest Journalist’s Day yet
Last Friday was Journalist’s Day (Dia del Periodista) in Venezuela, but this year it came in what is undeniably the most hostile environment for the press in recent memory. With 2014 becoming one of...
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HegemonCorp. gets El Universal (Updated)
Because taking over the largest newspaper group in Venezuela in order to dismantle simply it wasn’t enough, HegemonCorp. (the private business sector of the communicational hegemony) has bought El...
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The drip-drip of self-censorship
In recent years, self-censorship has become commonplace in Venezuelan media, and more so in the outlets controlled by the private arm of the communicational hegemony (HegemonCorp). It’s been more than...
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Stealth Censorship Chronicles
Since its acquisition by a mysterious, quite possibly bogus Spanish investment firm, Caracas newspaper El Universal has shown that it will follow the path of Ultimas Noticias and Globovision, media...
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Journalism under siege
What’s new with the communicational hegemony these days? Well, a radio station was shut down in Barinas, and a radio show was suspended in Caracas. Journalists are being fired for having opinions,...
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Fighting the war on fiction
The shakeup that wasn’t and its future consequences has been the main story in the last few days, but right underneath the radar was the latest development in the “Media War” the central government...
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Looking for news and opinion? Get online
Wanna know what’s going on in Venezuela? You won’t have it easy. State media newscasts are just propaganda. Private ones kinda report the news, but focus more on infotainment and human interest...
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On the brink of Newsprint-geddon
Barquisimeto’s main newspaper El Impulso informed its readers via an editorial last week that they would be forced to stop publishing, because their reserves of newsprint were simply insufficient to...
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El Universal fires cartoonist Rayma
Last night, HegemonCorp.-owned newspaper El Universal fired cartoonist Rayma Suprani. Why? Because of this… Her work was already being censored ever since the paper changed owners last July, but this...
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