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Street protests in Venezuela against the shutdown of Radio Caracas TV were suppressed with tear gas and water cannons. ABC only mentioned the shutdown in passing; CBS not at all. At least NBC assigned a correspondent, Mark Potter to the story, albeit from Miami: after 53 years on the air, RCTV was Venezuela's "oldest and most popular privately-owned television station."
President Hugo Chavez refused to renew its license, accusing it of "subversive activities" and "supporting a coup attempt against him five years ago." But Potter saw censorship plain and simple: "Another critical voice in Venezuela was silenced." Potter's colleague, Cristina Londono, from NBC's Spanish-speaking sibling channel Telemundo, was on the scene. She noted that "young people and students," usually belonging to Chavez' base of support, had switched sides on this issue and went "out on the streets protesting against him." It is not right to deprive youth of its telenovelas.
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