jueves, mayo 31, 2007
MEEBO...una conexion util
Arriba aparece MEEBO...es bueno conocer esta herramienta. Es un lugar donde puede hacer Chat o mandar los mensajes por todos los servidores más conocidos.
Le hago un reconocimiento a Geek
y
He colocados dos de los 4 Blogs de Geek...un residente en México que colocó un COMENTARIO en la entrada que trata de YOU-TUBE y como es muy raro las personas que al ver este Blog dejen sus opiniones...entonces me gustan que ustedes conozcan los dos blogs de arriba que son muy buenas y muy bien diseñados. Gracias
I have made a recognition to GEEK. The commentary of Geek in the YOUTUBE Link (RCTV) is very positive when giving options to see other spaces of TV.Thanks.
J'ai fait une reconnaissance à GEEK. Le commentaire de Geek dans le link d'YOUTUBE (RCTV) est très positif en donnant des options pour voir d'autres espaces de TV.Merci.
Eu fiz um recognition a GEEK. O commentary de Geek na ligação de YOUTUBE (RCTV) é muito positivo ao dar opções para ver outros espaços da tevê.Obrigado.
나는 괴짜에게 승인을 만들었다. YOUTUBE 연결 (RCTV)에 있는 괴짜의 논평은 TV.Gracias의 다른 공간을 보기 위하여 옵션을 줄 때 아주 긍정적이다
我做了公認對怪傑。 怪傑評論在YOUTUBE鏈接(RCTV)是非常正面的，當給予選擇看時其他空間
Radio Caracas TV por YOU-TUBE
Si hacen Click arriba en el link pueden ver una trasmisión de RCTV utilizando You-TUBE. Una excelente iniciativa digital y también pueden ver su noticiero El Observador.
miércoles, mayo 30, 2007
Venezuela's Chavez widens attack on opposition media
By Christian Oliver
CARACAS, May 29 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday called opposition news channel Globovision an enemy of the state and said he would do what was needed to stop it from inciting violence, only days after he shut another opposition broadcaster.
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched in Caracas in a fourth consecutive day of protests over Chavez's closure of the RCTV network - a move which has sparked international criticism that the leftist leader's reforms are undermining democracy.
State television showed hundreds of government supporters marching in downtown Caracas celebrating Chavez's decision.
"Enemies of the homeland, particularly those behind the scenes, I will give you a name: Globovision. Greetings gentlemen of Globovision, you should watch where you are going," Chavez said in a broadcast all channels had to show.
"I recommend you take a tranquilizer and get into gear, because if not, I am am going to do what is necessary."
He accused Globovision of trying to incite his assassination and of misreporting protests over the closure of RCTV in a manner that could whip up a situation similar to the coup attempt against him in 2002.
U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey said Washington called on Venezuelan authorities "to reverse these policies that they are pursuing to limit freedom of expression."
Since coming to power in 1999, Chavez has won the support of the nation's poor majority with a multi-billion dollar social spending program, financed by the nation's oil revenues, that helped him win a landslide re-election last year.
But his critics say his moves to centralize power, politicize key institutions like the military, judiciary and oil industry threaten democracy. He is forging a single governing party, ruling by decree and considering abolishing limits on how many terms a president can serve.
CLASHES OVER CLOSURE
Given this trend, political analysts had considered the existence of a critical media as the principal safeguard against Chavez following the lead of his communist mentor Cuban leader Fidel Castro. After RCTV's closure, Globovision is the last main opposition media in the OPEC nation, but it does not have nationwide coverage.
Chavez has had a long-running feud with opposition television channels, which openly supported a coup against him in April 2002 and refused to show the massive mobilization of his supporters that turned the tide back in the president's favor.
RCTV's closure on Sunday has led to intermittent clashes between protesters hurling bottles and stones and police firing rubber bullets and tear gas.
The mayor of metropolitan Caracas, Juan Barreto, said up to 187 people had been detained during the protests, mainly students. He said 19 police had been hurt, one surviving a shot to chest thanks to a flak jacket.
Globovision Director General Alberto Ravell told Reuters the charges against his channel were "ridiculous" but added he was worried by the government's offensive.
"If this government, with one stroke of the pen, closed the oldest television station in the country (RCTV), that has been on the air for 53 years, how will it not be able to shut this station which is far smaller," he said.
"This is a country with a single party and a single trade union. Now it appears there is going to be a single channel."
Chavez told Venezuelans to be on alert in case protests turned into a coup attempt against him. He called particularly on the poor shantytowns to repeat the support they showed for him during the coup attempt of 2002.
"Be alert, on the hillsides, in the shantytowns," he said. (Additional reporting by Brian Ellsworth and Arshad Mohammed in Washington)
CARACAS, May 29 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday called opposition news channel Globovision an enemy of the state and said he would do what was needed to stop it from inciting violence, only days after he shut another opposition broadcaster.
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched in Caracas in a fourth consecutive day of protests over Chavez's closure of the RCTV network - a move which has sparked international criticism that the leftist leader's reforms are undermining democracy.
State television showed hundreds of government supporters marching in downtown Caracas celebrating Chavez's decision.
"Enemies of the homeland, particularly those behind the scenes, I will give you a name: Globovision. Greetings gentlemen of Globovision, you should watch where you are going," Chavez said in a broadcast all channels had to show.
"I recommend you take a tranquilizer and get into gear, because if not, I am am going to do what is necessary."
He accused Globovision of trying to incite his assassination and of misreporting protests over the closure of RCTV in a manner that could whip up a situation similar to the coup attempt against him in 2002.
U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey said Washington called on Venezuelan authorities "to reverse these policies that they are pursuing to limit freedom of expression."
Since coming to power in 1999, Chavez has won the support of the nation's poor majority with a multi-billion dollar social spending program, financed by the nation's oil revenues, that helped him win a landslide re-election last year.
But his critics say his moves to centralize power, politicize key institutions like the military, judiciary and oil industry threaten democracy. He is forging a single governing party, ruling by decree and considering abolishing limits on how many terms a president can serve.
CLASHES OVER CLOSURE
Given this trend, political analysts had considered the existence of a critical media as the principal safeguard against Chavez following the lead of his communist mentor Cuban leader Fidel Castro. After RCTV's closure, Globovision is the last main opposition media in the OPEC nation, but it does not have nationwide coverage.
Chavez has had a long-running feud with opposition television channels, which openly supported a coup against him in April 2002 and refused to show the massive mobilization of his supporters that turned the tide back in the president's favor.
RCTV's closure on Sunday has led to intermittent clashes between protesters hurling bottles and stones and police firing rubber bullets and tear gas.
The mayor of metropolitan Caracas, Juan Barreto, said up to 187 people had been detained during the protests, mainly students. He said 19 police had been hurt, one surviving a shot to chest thanks to a flak jacket.
Globovision Director General Alberto Ravell told Reuters the charges against his channel were "ridiculous" but added he was worried by the government's offensive.
"If this government, with one stroke of the pen, closed the oldest television station in the country (RCTV), that has been on the air for 53 years, how will it not be able to shut this station which is far smaller," he said.
"This is a country with a single party and a single trade union. Now it appears there is going to be a single channel."
Chavez told Venezuelans to be on alert in case protests turned into a coup attempt against him. He called particularly on the poor shantytowns to repeat the support they showed for him during the coup attempt of 2002.
"Be alert, on the hillsides, in the shantytowns," he said. (Additional reporting by Brian Ellsworth and Arshad Mohammed in Washington)
martes, mayo 29, 2007
La TV Digital...
Dominique Wolton: "La Televisión Digital es un desafío político y no técnico"
Enviado por Fernando Flores el Lun, 2007-05-28 15:48
En el marco de un seminario sobre televisión digital y tecnologías de la información realizado por la Universidad de Chile la semana pasada, el prestigioso teórico francés Dominique Wolton ofreció una conferencia en la cual se refirió a los desafíos que países como el nuestro tendrán que enfrentar en el mundo de las comunicaciones. El sitio web de Atina Chile entrega hoy la siguiente nota que resume la esencia de la ponencia:
Dominique Wolton: "La Televisión Digital es un Desafío Político y no Técnico"
El destacado director de investigaciones del Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique de Francia (CNRS), resaltó el rol de las nuevas tecnologías en los procesos comunicacionales del siglo XXI, y reflexionó sobre su influencia en las relaciones interpersonales del individuo globalizado.
dominique_wolton01.jpgEn el marco del Seminario: Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación Ciudadana. El Reto de la TV Digital organizado por el Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen de la Universidad de Chile una de las exposiciones más esperadas era la del reconocido investigador y escritor Dominique Wolton, quien se ha destacado por sus numerosos estudios sobre los medios de comunicación masiva y sus implicaciones sociopolíticas y culturales.
Su exposición estuvo marcada por el análisis a la Tv Digital (norma que será estandarizada en Chile en el 2008) más allá de sus connotaciones técnicas.
"El desafio es político y no técnico", explicó en relación a la apertura de cientos de canales que entrarán a competir por la audiencia. "Muchas veces los progresos técnicos no se analizan considerando los contenidos".
El investigador francés indicó que el actual proceso de digitalización implica la emisión de una mayor cantidad de información y de difusión de la misma, sin embargo, esto no significa que existan mejoras significativas en el proceso de comunicación. "Tenemos miles de informaciones que circulan pero no está clara la manera de realizar una comunicación efectiva, por lo que el desafío será tomar en cuenta la heterogeneidad cultural en un contexto de estas características".
dominique_wolton02.jpgTambién llamó a no hacerse sobreexpectativas con la irrupción de nuevas tecnologías. "En estricto rigor, niguna tecnología ha reemplazado a otra. La radio no desapareció con la llegada de la televisión, lo mismo que el cine, o los diarios con Internet... Hay un factor común en todo esto que es la comunicación personal, directa, humana".
"La fuerza de la comunicación radica en su dimensión antropológica y no en su dimensión técnica. Por eso los ingenieros lo hacen bien en su lugar y no analizando fenómenos de carácter humanista y social", señaló.
Wolton explicó finalmente que en América Latina está en debate el desafío que se aproxima y se mostró confiado en la cercanía cultural con el viejo continente, sin aventurarse en que exista una preferencia masiva por la norma europea a la hora de tomar una decisión. También comentó que el aspecto más importante para Chile será el nivel de independencia que tenga el país a la hora de optar por una norma que rija la televisión digital, ya que el tema pasa por un conflicto del poder político y el fáctico, entre otros.
domingo, mayo 27, 2007
Freedom of Speech, Media, Politics
Venezuela: Bloggers Mobilize For and Against the End of Transmission of Radio Caracas Television.
Sunday, May 27th, 2007 @ 14:25 UTC
by Luis Carlos Diaz
The television channel Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) has enjoyed the ability to transmit over an open television frequency for the past 53 years. It is the oldest television channel in the country, and its license for the use of the frequency will expire. The Venezuelan government decided not to renew the license, just as we have written in the past.
The debate in the country continues to be the same: on one side the opposition to the Chavez government considers that this has to do with political retaliation in punishment for the channel’s role of political opposition, and on the other hand, the Chavistas support the measure because it can now “liberate” the open television signal from a channel that has destabilized the country through its propaganda.
There is very little gray area in a situation so polarzied, but the best thing is to read both sides.
The Venezuelan blog directory To2blogs.com opened a special section about RCTV and is collecting all of the posts that the Venezuelan bloggers are writing about the subject. This tells us about the importance of this governmental action in the morale of the Venezuelan blogosphere, because in itself, the process is another opportunity for political confrontation, as we have become accustomed to. Blogs have been created especially about the topic, those that are in favor the measure (RCTV from the inside) or against it (I am with RCTV). Ver:The Blog Directory
Up until now, there are more than 2,000 articles just in that site alone. There is a wealth of opinions about this conflict.
A channel without signal is a closed channel?
Within the political correctness language, “the non-renewal of the channel’s license” means that it cannot transmit over open signal, which will affect the channel’s economic standing and also the viewers will not be able to see it. The channel will not close, but it is restricted to transmit over cable, but because there is also no Digital TV technology in Venezuela, it ends this discussion.
Freedom of speech, public or private
The internal debates within each blog, such as the one at Slave to the PC [ES] with more than 200 comments, center upon whether the measure against the private channel represents a violation of freedom of speech.
Kira Kariakin comments:
Para mí la cuestión radica en los principios que mueven una sociedad que se precie de democrática y en esos principios están incluidos no solo la libertad de expresión, sino el derecho a la disensión, al juicio justo, a la defensa, a la protesta, al trabajo, a la propiedad privada, entre tantos otros que con este retiro de la concesión de la señal para RCTV se violentan. Luego de sentado un precedente como éste no habrá marcha atrás en cuanto a la libertad de expresión en los medios.
For me, the question is based on the principles of a society that enjoys democracy, and within those principles they also include not only freedom of speech, but also the right to dissent, to a fair trial, to a defense, to protest, to work, to private property, among others, which are some of the ones that are threatened with the withdrawal of RCTV’s license. After a precedent is set like this there is no turning back in regards to the media’s freedom of speech.
Iria at Resteados [ES] criticizes the quality of the channel and thinks that the problem of freedom of speech goes beyond whether or not it stays on the air:
RCTV sigue siendo hoy, el canal que hace 12 años dejé de ver por razones éticas y estéticas. No ha cambiado en estos meses desde que Chávez le dictó la sentencia de cierre.
Así que no tengo más que repetir: “Yo no estoy con RCTV”.
RCTV continues to be the channel that I stopped watching 12 years ago for ethical and aesthetic reasons. It has not changed during the months that Chavez gave its sentence of closing.
So, I have nothing else but to repeat, “I am not with RCTV”
Lubrio asks at El Espacio de Lubrio [ES] whether opinions and protests are really restricted in Venezuela, and provides an example of the opposition march on May 19, in which there was not a single repressive event.
La oposición marchó el 19 de mayo de 2007 en defensa de RCTV. Miles de opositores marcharon pacíficamente, algo que no pasa en dictaduras. Sin embargo, varios líderes opositores hacen llamados a que el 27 de mayo la población debe permanecer en las calles creando desestabilización para sacar al gobierno, lo cual es transmitido con normalidad en Globovisión y RCTV. Hasta llaman estúpido al Presidente Chávez.
The opposition marched on May 19, 2007 in defense of RCTV. Thousands of members of the opposition marched peacefully, which is something that does not happen in dictatorships. However, various opposition leaders are making calls that on May 27 for the population to remain in the streets creating destabilization in order to remove the government, which is a message transmitted with normalcy on Globovision and RCTV. They are even calling President Chavez stupid.
This week appears to be the end of the line for the channel. The license expires at midnight on May 27 and another Public Service station designed by the state called Tves will begin to broadcast. This is another station in the hands of the state, in addition to the official station and another four that are broadcasting on a national level.
Caracas is particularly tense and filled with protests and mobilizations for the past week. Vendors, actors and workers of the channel, university students, politicians, television viewers and members of political parties have all taken to the street … all in favor or against the shutdown of the station. Marches and gatherings are separated by geographic and ideological distances. The opposition is actively distributing audio of the protest (mp3) via the internet on the nights of the 26th and 27th in order to sound an alarm in favor of freedom of speech. The government has released the National Guard and Armed Forces in the city since Friday to prevent any public disorder.
On Monday morning, another intense reason for the political conflict will have taken place. The communications war in Venezuela will continue, even though the opposition will have one less channel at its disposal.
For a photoset, visit h_xavier’s Flickr.
FLICK
Sunday, May 27th, 2007 @ 14:25 UTC
by Luis Carlos Diaz
The television channel Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) has enjoyed the ability to transmit over an open television frequency for the past 53 years. It is the oldest television channel in the country, and its license for the use of the frequency will expire. The Venezuelan government decided not to renew the license, just as we have written in the past.
The debate in the country continues to be the same: on one side the opposition to the Chavez government considers that this has to do with political retaliation in punishment for the channel’s role of political opposition, and on the other hand, the Chavistas support the measure because it can now “liberate” the open television signal from a channel that has destabilized the country through its propaganda.
There is very little gray area in a situation so polarzied, but the best thing is to read both sides.
The Venezuelan blog directory To2blogs.com opened a special section about RCTV and is collecting all of the posts that the Venezuelan bloggers are writing about the subject. This tells us about the importance of this governmental action in the morale of the Venezuelan blogosphere, because in itself, the process is another opportunity for political confrontation, as we have become accustomed to. Blogs have been created especially about the topic, those that are in favor the measure (RCTV from the inside) or against it (I am with RCTV). Ver:
Up until now, there are more than 2,000 articles just in that site alone. There is a wealth of opinions about this conflict.
A channel without signal is a closed channel?
Within the political correctness language, “the non-renewal of the channel’s license” means that it cannot transmit over open signal, which will affect the channel’s economic standing and also the viewers will not be able to see it. The channel will not close, but it is restricted to transmit over cable, but because there is also no Digital TV technology in Venezuela, it ends this discussion.
Freedom of speech, public or private
The internal debates within each blog, such as the one at Slave to the PC [ES] with more than 200 comments, center upon whether the measure against the private channel represents a violation of freedom of speech.
Kira Kariakin comments:
Para mí la cuestión radica en los principios que mueven una sociedad que se precie de democrática y en esos principios están incluidos no solo la libertad de expresión, sino el derecho a la disensión, al juicio justo, a la defensa, a la protesta, al trabajo, a la propiedad privada, entre tantos otros que con este retiro de la concesión de la señal para RCTV se violentan. Luego de sentado un precedente como éste no habrá marcha atrás en cuanto a la libertad de expresión en los medios.
For me, the question is based on the principles of a society that enjoys democracy, and within those principles they also include not only freedom of speech, but also the right to dissent, to a fair trial, to a defense, to protest, to work, to private property, among others, which are some of the ones that are threatened with the withdrawal of RCTV’s license. After a precedent is set like this there is no turning back in regards to the media’s freedom of speech.
Iria at Resteados [ES] criticizes the quality of the channel and thinks that the problem of freedom of speech goes beyond whether or not it stays on the air:
RCTV sigue siendo hoy, el canal que hace 12 años dejé de ver por razones éticas y estéticas. No ha cambiado en estos meses desde que Chávez le dictó la sentencia de cierre.
Así que no tengo más que repetir: “Yo no estoy con RCTV”.
RCTV continues to be the channel that I stopped watching 12 years ago for ethical and aesthetic reasons. It has not changed during the months that Chavez gave its sentence of closing.
So, I have nothing else but to repeat, “I am not with RCTV”
Lubrio asks at El Espacio de Lubrio [ES] whether opinions and protests are really restricted in Venezuela, and provides an example of the opposition march on May 19, in which there was not a single repressive event.
La oposición marchó el 19 de mayo de 2007 en defensa de RCTV. Miles de opositores marcharon pacíficamente, algo que no pasa en dictaduras. Sin embargo, varios líderes opositores hacen llamados a que el 27 de mayo la población debe permanecer en las calles creando desestabilización para sacar al gobierno, lo cual es transmitido con normalidad en Globovisión y RCTV. Hasta llaman estúpido al Presidente Chávez.
The opposition marched on May 19, 2007 in defense of RCTV. Thousands of members of the opposition marched peacefully, which is something that does not happen in dictatorships. However, various opposition leaders are making calls that on May 27 for the population to remain in the streets creating destabilization in order to remove the government, which is a message transmitted with normalcy on Globovision and RCTV. They are even calling President Chavez stupid.
This week appears to be the end of the line for the channel. The license expires at midnight on May 27 and another Public Service station designed by the state called Tves will begin to broadcast. This is another station in the hands of the state, in addition to the official station and another four that are broadcasting on a national level.
Caracas is particularly tense and filled with protests and mobilizations for the past week. Vendors, actors and workers of the channel, university students, politicians, television viewers and members of political parties have all taken to the street … all in favor or against the shutdown of the station. Marches and gatherings are separated by geographic and ideological distances. The opposition is actively distributing audio of the protest (mp3) via the internet on the nights of the 26th and 27th in order to sound an alarm in favor of freedom of speech. The government has released the National Guard and Armed Forces in the city since Friday to prevent any public disorder.
On Monday morning, another intense reason for the political conflict will have taken place. The communications war in Venezuela will continue, even though the opposition will have one less channel at its disposal.
For a photoset, visit h_xavier’s Flickr.
Los Chinos y su Tecnologia
Ahora los Chinos han comenzado a desarrollar con el apoyo de empresas multinacionales un conjunto de objetos tecnológicos que van desde engramado especial para parques y medios de transporte masivo como un tren de alta velocidad (más de 400 kilómetros por hora) que comenzará a operar en tres año y entre la capital y varias ciudades chinas.
Chávez's Move Against Critic Highlights Shift in Media
Chávez's Move Against Critic Highlights Shift in Media
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By SIMON ROMERO
Published: May 27, 2007
CARACAS, Venezuela, May 26 . Arturo Sarmiento speaks upper-crust English polished at Sandhurst, Britain's aristocratic military school. He made fortunes trading oil and importing whiskey. Now Mr. Sarmiento, just 35 and a staunch supporter of President Hugo Chávez, owns an expanding television network here.
As tempers flare around Mr. Chávez's decision not to renew the license of RCTV, the nation's oldest broadcaster and a vocal critic, effectively shutting it down on Sunday, a new media elite is emerging. It is made up of ideological devotees to Mr. Chávez, senior government officials and tycoons like Mr. Sarmiento.
That is a marked contrast with the state of the news media when Mr. Chávez's rule began in 1999. Then, the industry was largely privately owned by moneyed interests hostile to Mr. Chávez. His supporters say that old guard " as partisan as newspapers in the early United States" sought to derail his actions during much of his presidency.
"With the polarization that's befallen Venezuela, media organizations have been used to cause political change," Mr. Sarmiento said in a recent interview. He says his ambitions for TeleCaribe, a private broadcaster he bought last year, are different: to provide programming tailored to regional audiences in Venezuela. "Media vehicles should not be engaged in politics," he said.
Mr. Chávez has dueled with opponents in the news media while fortifying news organizations loyal to him. For instance, newspapers favorable to the government have received nearly 12 times more government advertising, said Andrés Cañizález, a researcher at Andrés Bello University, citing a study of four leading dailies.
"Previous administrations in Venezuela also used advertising as a way to consolidate media support," Mr. Cañizález said. "The difference now is that the government has made growing its own media operations and combating its opponents in the media central elements of its political strategy."
In what may point to a rare example of widespread disagreement with the popular president, recent polls show that most Venezuelans oppose Mr. Chávez's decision not to renew RCTV's license.
Thousands of people marched through downtown here on Saturday to RCTV's headquarters to show support for the network, following a protest by opposing groups late Friday in front of Globovisión, another dissident network, that left that its building and neighboring buildings painted with pro-Chávez slogans.
The RCTV move has rallied the president's base. Anti-RCTV graffiti covers walls throughout Caracas alongside criticism of President Bush, whom Mr. Chávez regularly derides. Mr. Chávez has described RCTV as "putschist," with his disdain for the network intensifying since a group of military officers briefly ousted him in 2002.
The president accuses RCTV and other private broadcasters of supporting what amounted to a 48-hour coup. In RCTV's case, the government says the network colluded with the coup's conspirators by conducting a news blackout after Mr. Chávez's removal and broadcasting cartoons when he returned to office two days later.
As Mr. Chávez's political power has grown, with loyalists controlling the Supreme Court, the national assembly and most state governments, RCTV has remained critical of Mr. Chávez. Two other nationwide broadcasters, Televen and Venevisión, have curtailed critical coverage. Globovisión, the cable news channel that drew the anger of pro-Chávez groups on Friday, remains critical of Mr. Chávez but is viewed by a relatively small part of the population.
Mr. Chávez's partisans often say critical coverage of the government illustrates elitist and racist sentiments, while dissidents say the news media are their only outlet for expression, since other institutions are controlled by Mr. Chávez.
Meanwhile, changes in the criminal code and new legislation have raised defamation penalties and enhanced the government's ability to intimidate critics through legal action while Mr. Chávez has created an array of new state media ventures. When he was first elected, the government had just one television station and two radio stations. Now there are four new television stations controlled by central and regional governments and seven new radio broadcasters.
Some of the new ventures, like Telesur, a regional cable news network with a pan-Latin American agenda similar to the pan-Arabism of Al Jazeera, are taking over the operations of private broadcasters. Telesur, based in Caracas and backed largely by Venezuela's government, recently acquired the broadcasting signal of CMT, a private broadcaster, allowing it to reach an audience beyond cable.
"There is a democratization of television under way in Venezuela," Andrés Izarra, a former RCTV executive who is now president of Telesur, said in an interview on Saturday.
Supporters of Mr. Chávez's decision to deny RCTV a new license point out that most news organizations in Venezuela remain in private hands. Influential newspapers like El Nacional and El Universal, two Caracas dailies, remain independent and their editorials are critical of Mr. Chávez.
Still, some of the nation's largest private media groups show a trend toward far softer coverage of Mr. Chávez's government. For instance, Últimas Noticias, the Caracas tabloid with the nation's highest circulation, recently helped sponsor a series of forums on "21st century socialism," Mr. Chávez's catch-all concept for the changes sweeping Venezuela.
Also largely refraining from critical coverage of Mr. Chávez are Panorama, Maracaibo's main daily newspaper, and El Diario de Caracas and the English-language Daily Journal, both of which were acquired in recent years by Julio Augusto López, a pro-Chávez entrepreneur.
Mr. López also controls Canal de Noticias, a cable news channel, and is involved in publishing El Patriota, an army newspaper. Plans for another news channel have been announced by Wilmer Ruperti, a shipping tycoon who backs Mr. Chávez.
Readership and revenues have grown for more stridently partisan boosters of Mr. Chávez in recent years, like Diario Vea, a daily newspaper founded in 2004 and edited by Servando García Ponce, a former longtime correspondent for the Itar-Tass news agency in Venezuela.
Vea, its pages filled with government advertising, runs features on Communist history, like Ho Chi Minh's victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, and columns by Venezuelans like Basem Tajeldine, who recently accused Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, of attacks against Jews to justify what he called "Zionist' policies.
"Freedom of expression is flourishing in Venezuela," Mr. García Ponce said in an interview. "We are not repressive of minority opinions in Venezuela."
The government's treatment of its critics is on display on La Hojilla, a nightly talk show on the main state television station that pillories opposition journalists against a backdrop with images of Mr. Chávez, Lenin and Che Guevara.
La Hojilla's host, Mario Silva, also publishes a weekly newspaper with the same name and editorial tone of his show. (The most recent issue has a full-page cartoon depicting Marcel Granier, RCTV's president, as Batman and the network's main male anchor as Robin, in a loving embrace as they plot Mr. Chávez's ouster.)
The creation of yet another state broadcaster by replacing RCTV with a new government broadcasting operation called Teves has fueled growing international concern. Human Rights Watch this week called the license decision a "serious setback for freedom of expression in Venezuela."
The government here seemed ready with arguments to counter the international political reaction to RCTV's effective closure. The United States Senate this week approved a resolution describing the RCTV decision as a "transgression against freedom of thought."
It drew a rebuke from Bernardo Álvarez, Venezuela's ambassador to the United States, who said the nonrenewal of RCTV's license was a legal and regulatory decision.
"While the decision has been distorted to make it seem like Venezuela's government is closing a television station, this is simply a regulatory matter," Mr. Álvarez said in a letter to Senator Richard G. Lugar, the Indiana Republican who introduced the measure.
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