Dictator Hugo Chavez policy on critical media mirrors Obama attack on radio host

• (The Politico, 3/4/09): "A senior White House aide has been tasked with helping to guide the Limbaugh strategy."... (ie the campaign against talk show host Rush Limbaugh)...

• When has it happened that a government has publicly attacked the media voice of a private citizen? In the dictatorship of Hugo Chavez-apparently as obsessed about being popular as Obama is.

El Universal, 3/2: "Venezuela's President ordered his governors and mayors to draw "the map of the media war"

• to determine which media are "owned by oligarchs."...

Chávez said that "were it not for the attacks, the lies, manipulation and exaggeration of the mistakes of the government" by the private media, the popularity of his government would be 80 percent instead of 60 percent or 70 percent, as he claims to have.

• "Every mayor, in every city council must make an analysis.

• How many radio stations are there?

• What is the content of the programs?

Every governor in his or her respective state must do the same analysis.

• Let us draw a map of the media war.

With respect to the newspapers, how many newspapers are owned by the oligarchs in Aragua state, in the municipality of Zamora?

• There is also a media war on the Internet.

There is a daily battle.

• I beg you to put at the forefront of this battle," Chávez said."

(Chavez is after newspapers and internet as well as radio. The Obama group is thrilled with newspapers, television, Hollywood, colleges, public schools, and leads on the internet. Leaving only radio to fall in line). sm

• In the US this week, Senator Durbin placed an amendment aimed at censoring speech on certain radio airwaves (otherwise described as 'fairness'). The amendment was tied to a bill about adding a congressional representative to the DC area:

(From RedState by Brian Darling): "The Amendment specifically forces the FCC to "take actions to encourage diversity in communication media ownership.” Diversity is a code word...

• Remember...the Center for American Progress (CAP) roadmap,... The Structural Imbalance of Talk Radio? This paper called for a restoration of local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations....

The Durbin Amendment was not as specific as the CAP paper, but it is a first step to an FCC regulatory attack on the CBS, Clear Channel, Citadel, Cumulus and Salem radio networks.

The Durbin Amendment had another mandate to the FCC to “ensure that broadcast licenses are used in the public interest.”

The CAP paper argues that local control can help to eradicate conservatives from talk radio by forcing ”radio broadcast licensees to regularly show that they are operating on behalf of the public interest and provide public documentation and viewing of how they are meeting these obligations.”

• Who determines the definition of the “public interest?”

• Well, it will be left wing radio broadcasters and government bureaucrats from the FCC who define
• the “public interest.”...

El Universal article via MichaelSavage.com

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