Check it out. Anti Chavez media asked for US funding.

[EFerrari]

Caracas, Feb.23.10

http://bit.ly/qkxnDU

Summary: In separate meetings with the Ambassador between February 17-19, several of Venezuela's major private media XXXXXXXXXXXX acknowledged that relentless Venezuelan Government (GBRV) pressure against their television and print outlets has threatened to put them out of business. XXXXXXXXXXXX, confirmed the allegations of Globovision's outgoing director, XXXXXXXXXXXX, that threats from senior GBRV officials had forced them to fire XXXXXXXXXXXX and to tone down Globovision's strongly anti-Chavez orientation. In a separate conversation, XXXXXXXXXXXX asserted that due to the paper's substantial loss of advertising revenue from companies that had either been nationalized or been threatened by the GBRV, the paper would go out of business by April without substantial financial assistance. XXXXXXXXXXXX asked the Ambassador whether the U.S. could provide such assistance. End Summary.

Not only does State clearly admit these people are antigovernment but they pass on their request for funding.

:)

[ChangoLoa]

1. This cable describes the situation quite well indeed

1. Globovision and El Nacional are radically anti-govt
2. They turn to the US embassy to get support

But I believe you should add to your conclusion two facts as a counterpart:
1. The government manages to get directors fired in those media and to tone them down
2. The government organizes the commercial boycott of their only normal income source: advertising

[EFerrari]

2. That's fair enough. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

3. I would LOVE to see Fox appeal for financing from the very public it has attempted to deceive.

That would be a day to celebrate, but ONLY if they were explosively denied, of course, and then ridiculed.

Dirty scums. Nothing lower.

[naaman fletcher]

4. Also shows,

that Chavez uses the government to suppress the media, which i didn't think was supposed to happen in an "actual, real democracy".