Latin America
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Cuban Blogger Given Press Award
Posted by BBC News on 08 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Latin America, Awards
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By BBC News A young Cuban dissident has been given a prestigious Spanish journalism award for using a blog to overcome the limits to free expression in her country. |
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Hispanic Congressmen Demand Corporate Action Against CNN Host
Posted by guardian.co.uk on 29 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Free Speech, Politics, Hillary, Media Freedom, Policy, 08 Election, Latin America
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By Elana Schor, guardian.co.uk Latino members of Congress condemned the TV network for failing to recognise the “potentially dangerous” consequences of Dobbs’s “divisive commentary”. |
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International Press on the Venezuela Referendum
Posted by El Universal on 04 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Commentary, World Press, Latin America, Democracy
El Universal provides a roundup of international press coverage on the Venezuelan Constitutional Referendum vote.
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A Ken Burns Guilt Trip At PBS?
Posted by AP on 27 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, PBS, Television, Cable, Latin America, Mexico
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By David Bauder, AP Call it a guilt trip or a cultural awakening, but some Latino filmmakers feel that the controversy over Ken Burns’ World War II documentary has unexpectedly opened doors for their work at PBS. |
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Google Takes Big Step To Make Web Work Offline
Posted by Reuters on 31 May 2007 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Asia, Technology, New Media, Google, Reuters, Latin America
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By Eric Auchard, Reuters Google Inc. said it had created Web software that runs both online and offline, marking a sea change for the Internet industry by letting users work on planes, trains, spotty connections and even in the most remote locations. |
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Venezuela, RCTV, And Media Freedom: Just The Facts, Please
Posted by MediaChannel on 30 May 2007 | Tagged as: News, Bias, Media Freedom, Latin America
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By James Jordan, VenezuelAnalysis.com Pardon me if I’m just a little astounded by all this noise in the media, the Bush administration, the Senate and the House, about how Venezuela is “attacking” free speech and independent media by not renewing the broadcasting license of RCTV. |
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Hugo Chavez versus RCTV
Posted by LA Times on 30 May 2007 | Tagged as: News, Bias, AOLTimeWarner, Media Freedom, Latin America
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By Bart Jones, LA Times Venezuela’s oldest private TV network played a major role in a failed 2002 coup. |
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Venezuela Calls for Probe of CNN, Globovision ‘Lies’
Posted by Bloomberg on 29 May 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, AOLTimeWarner, Latin America
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By Guillermo Parra-Bernal and Alex Kennedy, Bloomberg Venezuela’s government urged a probe of Time Warner Inc.’s Cable News Network and local television station Globovision for broadcasting “lies” and inciting violence against President Hugo Chavez. |
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Commentary: Latinos Give PBS A History Lesson
Posted by CNN on 14 May 2007 | Tagged as: News, CNN, PBS, Television, Latin America
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By Ruben Navarrette, Jr., CNN There is an ongoing battle between filmmaker Ken Burns and a coalition of Hispanic veterans, organizations and lawmakers over plans by Burns and the Public Broadcasting System to release a documentary on World War II that ignores the 500,000 Hispanics who fought in the war. |
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TV station begins Chavez assault on Europe
Posted by Expatica on 11 May 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Television, Latin America
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By Expatica Telesur, the television network promoted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a corrective to what he sees as the biased coverage of Latin America by U.S. media conglomerates, views Spain as the bridgehead for a campaign to win an audience in Europe. |
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