Hugo Chavez Scolds CNN for Coverage of Michael Jackson’s Death: El Universal, Mexico
Jun 27th, 2009 | 3 responses
Could it be that CNN is overdoing its coverage of Michael Jackson’s death – pushing aside more pressing issues? If you said yes – then you are in agreement with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who charges that a challenge to the authority of his ally in Honduras, President Manuel Zelaya, is being ignored in favor of Jackson’s passing by the American cable news network, due to the ‘negative values of capitalism.’
This news item from Mexico’s El Universal says in part:
“The President of Venezuela has launched an attack on U.S. television network CNN for saturating the news with the death of the ‘King of Pop,’ while in Honduras, he warned, a coup d’état is taking place … ‘these are the evils of capitalism,’ he warned, asking supporters to ‘go to battle every day, the cultural battle, in a society bombarded by the negative values of capitalism.”
Translated By Miguel Gutierrez
June 25, 2009
Mexico – El Universal – Original Article (Spanish)
Caracas, Venezuela: The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, this evening criticized U.S. television network CNN for giving more coverage to the death of pop star Michael Jackson than to the situation in Honduras, where he said, a coup d’état is taking place.
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3 Responses to “Hugo Chavez Scolds CNN for Coverage of Michael Jackson’s Death: El Universal, Mexico”
It doesn't take Chavez to say that. I normally don't watch TV but have had the chance lately due to an odd schedule, and as I wrote elsewhere, there's “non-stop Jacko on CNN.” (I was watching CNN, A.K.A. “Clearly Not Neutral,” one of the lib media networks, because it purports, or weakly claims, to offer news and related programming non-stop, and I prefer at least weak info-tainment to the more puerile-to-vulgar alternatives on other networks and stations.)
Amazing. I would like to hear more about Honduras! MJ…not so much. I would also have to reluctantly agree that in choosing MJ over such dramatic events in Honduras is indeed indicative of media “Negative Capitalism Values”. A new conflict in the world and our media focuses on the death of an entertainer for three days?
Never thought I would agree with someone I also wish was dead.