Julie Webb-Pullman: Frequency Flyers Wings Clipped

And how they squawk!!! Marcel Granier of Radio Caracas TV (RCTV) is running around like a headless chook, frenetically beating his drumsticks hoping that in the flurry of feathers no-one will actually notice that he is just full of....well, chicken-shit!

Such a little acorn, the withdrawal of a public frequency, to strike such a great fear that the sky is falling into Henny Penny’s heart, to make her rush hither and thither cackling “closure”, even into the European Parliament, where a few equally bird-brained deputies took a feather from the cap of cousin ostrich and buried their heads in the sand in support.

What the Venezuelan Government has in fact done is merely withdraw RCTV’s access to the PUBLIC frequency until now being used by this PRIVATE profit-making corporate media enterprise. But that’s just not chicket! Why shouldn’t the taxpayer, the poor, and the peso-less feather the nests of these corporate high-flyers, stuffing their breasts with camembert while they toss the masses a few handfuls of genetically-modified Granier? Do you really expect RCTV to survive only on cable and satellite, and the chickenfeed they make out of these??!! How can they possibly bring down the Chavez government, their avowed goal, if their message can only reach the top of the pecking order, the rich oligarchy?

Who will heed Henny Penny’s crowing from the corporate dung-heaps, that freedom of expression is threatened? The Venezuelan public, whose frequency has been continually used by RCTV to undermine their popular and democratically-elected President and Government, including supporting the 2002 attempted coup? The Venezuelan legislature, whose media laws RCTV has been flouting for several years, broadcasting pornography on the public frequency, in addition to its constant attacks on the government?

RCTV’s chickens are finally coming home to roost....and they need to sort the wheat from the chaff - there is a categorical difference between demanding that a State guarantees freedom of expression, and demanding that a State provides private enterprise with State-owned means for that expression, especially when there is already access to, and use of, other means. Especially when what is being expressed is abhorrent to the overwhelming majority of the ‘owners’ of one of the means, who are trying to ensure that through this means and others, a harmonious Bolivarian society is born, not porn.

Venezuelans have made it clear they want a healthy diet, and RCTV will just have to accept that you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs – and some will be rotten, and thrown out.

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