Students take part in a demonstration against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas Jan. 27, 2010. Venezuelan cable providers, responding to government orders, stopped showing the RCTV Internacional TV station on Sunday, a station critical of the left-wing leader who pushed its free-access parent RCTV off free-access television in 2007. Photo from the Globe And MailFrom FOX News:
Fierce and growing protests over media freedom have left at least two students dead in Venezuela, and graphic images depicting violent tactics employed by the police there have started to flood the Internet.
The greatest threat to Hugo Chavez's future just might be the World Wide Web.
Fierce and growing protests over media freedom have left at least two students dead in Venezuela, and graphic images depicting violent tactics employed by the police there have started to flood the Internet.
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My Comment: Coverage of these demonstrations and the violent reactions from the Venezuelan police have been completely absent from the main stream media in the west. Twitter, YouTube, Facebook .... these are now the tools for modern day protest and political action.
It really is 'the new media'; it terrifies the leadership of China, Turkey and especially Iran as well.
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