101 - Hugo Chavez And The Television Station: Fact Vs. Fiction

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 13 July 2007

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Today I'm going to discuss with you the recent controversy over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's not renewing the broadcast license of a television station in that country.All nations license the right to use their public airwaves, since the demand for use of the airwaves far outstrips the supply. In the US the Federal Communications Commission performs this function, granting terms of 8 years.

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 101 of Blast the Right.
0:24.0	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRatical.com.
0:27.4	Today I'm going to discuss with you the recent controversy over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
0:36.8	is not renewing the broadcast license of a television station in that country.
0:42.3	In my closing comments to the podcast, I'll have an important programming note.
0:46.9	Let's get right into it.
0:48.8	My sources are the New York Times, the LA Times, mediachannel.org, znet.org, truthdig.com,
0:57.9	common dreams.org, the British newspaper, the Guardian, the Solidarity website, Venezuelananalysis.com,
1:05.4	the Associated Press, and Reuters.
1:09.0	In several podcasts I've discussed what Hugo Chavez is doing in Venezuela and why progressives
1:15.0	must support him.
1:16.9	Initially put, he's governing in the interests of the poor majority.
1:21.0	Virtually all prior governments had governed in the interests of a tiny elite of ultra-rich
1:26.0	Venezuelans.
1:27.5	Chavez is forcing new deals on the multinational oil companies so that the bulk of the
1:32.3	profits stays in Venezuela to help Venezuelans not line the pockets of the multinationals.
1:39.1	That money is being used to fund food, medical, education, and housing needs.
1:44.3	The podcast's 1849.
1:47.4	Chavez is forging ahead with a land reform program which finds unused land and buys it from
1:53.0	the owners and then allows peasant cooperatives to farm it.
1:56.8	That's podcast 95.
1:59.0	In short, Chavez is setting a very, very bad example for other third-world countries, at
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