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Whatever happens in Honduras, the crisis has been tremendously good to Telesur TV. The satellite and cable news channel launched as a sort of Latin American Al Jazeera in 2005. Funded in large part by the oil dollars of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, it intended to become a combative alternative to CNN or BBC en Español. Until Telesur’s emergence, Latin America lacked a homegrown continent-wide news channel. Critics laughed Telesur off as “Chávez TV,” and said it wouldn’t have enough independence or objectivity to produce reputable TV news. But with the crisis in Honduras, Telesur has hit its stride. Objective, it’s not. It’s clearly resolutely on the side of deposed left-leaning President Manuel Zelaya, a Chávez ally, and against the de-facto, post-coup government of the center-right Roberto Micheletti. Just as Al Jazeera found its true calling as an Arab conscience reporting critically on the 2003 Iraq War, Telesur has found it as a gadfly to the Honduran coup leaders. Despite having its cameramen beat up, its signal blocked in Honduras, its staff arrested and harassed, it has provided the best up-to-date coverage of the crisis. So much so, that Twitter posts about the coup frequently referenced Telesur’s on-air broadcasts. In other words, Telesur has sometimes been even one step ahead of Twitterers. On Monday, the second day of Micheletti’s government, CNN International and the BBC still seemed to be fumbling for dramatic street footage. On Telesur’s live online feed, I watched unedited, gritty footage of screaming protesters running from riot police. I saw rooftop views of camouflaged soldiers standing guard at the presidential palace, as helicopters airlifted in boxes of supplies for the besieged coup leaders. Instead of dry quotes served up in the newspapers or rumor-mongering on Twitter, this was palpable, irrefutable stuff. Watching Telesur, one could feel the anxiety and adrenaline roiling Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. Telesur has come of age. comments |
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I totally agree with you
By Anderson Paz · Posted on Jul 1, 10:10 AMQuiero declarar mi enorme agradecimiento a TELESUR, por esa gran labor que desarrollaron en ser los primeros en informar a la opinión internacional sobre lo que sucedía en Honduras.
By Jose Castro · Posted on Jul 1, 03:19 PMComo periodista me enorgullece tener medios como TELESUR, y CNN, y también ofrecer mi experiencia como reportero si es que llegasen a necesitar de mi ayuda sobre nuestras comunidades en Los Estados Unidos y un abrazo a todos los colegas periodistas de Tele Sur y a los paisanos periodistas profesionales por su neutralidad en su trabajo en Honduras y al mismo tiempo enviar un repudio a los periodistas vende patria de honduras que se encargan de manipular la mente de nuestro pueblo a bese de mentiras como icieron los del congreso hondureño con leer una falza y asquerosa carta con la que pretendian hacer creer a la opinión publica que ellos estaban haciendo lo correcto, que ingenuos son los políticos Hondureños pero de todas maneras que se la creen ellos mismos por que las sociedades de las otras naciones y sus pueblos saben que fue una canallada lo que icieron.
Gracias a todos por este gran atrabajo o jala que sigan encaminandose de esta manera para ser la voz de los sin voz en el continente latinoamericano.
Atte Jose Castro
puntosdeinteres@comcast.net
So let me see if I got it right…..they are reporting their biased propaganda and lies all the while they claim the new government is repressing the press? I guess in Chavez’ twisted world everything is possible.
By catracho · Posted on Jul 2, 09:46 AMYou are definitely right and I am preparing a similiar post, as a latinamerican journalist who is monitoring media in this defining moment for our region. There is definitely nothing like watching the unedited action on the street.
By alicia casas · Posted on Jul 2, 10:09 AMTelesur has held its own and I´m sure even Micheletti is watching it to see what´s going on (and if he´s not, he´s more stupid than we thought).
Hurray for Telesur. Praise to Hugo Chavez for funding this brilliant media venture. Go Telesur sick Micheletti the lapdog for neocon Bush & Cheney torture corporation
By Billy Hewitt · Posted on Jul 4, 01:38 PM