sandinista wrote:I quoted the law
You never really did, you quoted the washington post "quoting" the law. Those wahington post articles have been thoroughly discredited.
The only way to really "discredit" the quote is to provide the real quote, if it's wrong. Quite simple, actually.
sandinista wrote:
“The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The New York Times dedicated over 11,000 words in 14 op-eds or editorials to attacking Venezuela just in the last month. The Miami Herald alone published more than 15 op-eds and editorials in that same period.”
http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2008/0 ... th-chavez/
That doesn't "discredit" anything.
sandinista wrote:
the Washington Post, which is a private enterprise, not controlled by the government. That's the same newspaper that blew the lid off of Watergate.
There is no separation between the government and the mass media corporations. It's all one and the same.
Vast overstatement. If that were true, you'd never have seen the complete pasting that GWBush got in his last 4 years in office. He didn't get a positive article for years.
sandinista wrote:
Same goes for most multinationals. CEO's and politicians are interchangeable. As for watergate...times have changed. I'm surprised you haven't noticed a change in the US media in the last several decades.
If anything, the media is more pro-Administration now than it was 2 years ago, I will give you that. However, there is plenty of room for both pro and anti Chavez reporting to be done here in the States.
The bottom line is - we have a point on the table - Izzaro from Venezuela said that the Diehl confused a law designed to protect children from obscenity in the media with what Diehl described as a law prohibiting political speech. Diehl quoted the law. You say he's wrong. So quote the real law. What's the true wording? Diehl would have had to have basically made up an entire provision of the law, because what he quoted has nothing to do with protecting children. I'll certainly remain open to new information: so - what's the correct wording of the law?