Chavez Takes Over Private TV Network
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:51 pmVenezuelan strongman, Hugo Chavez, has taken over the the nation’s oldest private television network, Radio Caracas Television.
A state run television station will replace RCT.
Government control of the organs of information distribution is a symptom of the command and control society that Venezuela appears to approach. A government that cannot tolerate criticism is a government that cannot be considered legitimate and is usually a government that becomes corrupt.
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