Soap opera off air in Venezuela after gov't demand

[davidinalameda]

A Venezuelan television station has stopped airing a Colombian soap opera after government regulators demanded its removal saying the program was offensive and denigrating to Venezuela as a country.

The soap opera "Chepe Fortuna" features an unscrupulous secretary named "Venezuela" who has a dog called "Little Hugo," an apparent reference to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

"What disrespect for Venezuela!" Chavez said in a speech to lawmakers Saturday. "That soap is so horrible!"

The private TV channel Televen did not air the program on Friday after regulators demanded the show be dropped from the lineup.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/01/15/international/i143322S47.DTL#ixzz1B9XUPWqc

[RB TexLa]

1. So if you hurt his little feelings he has your show taken off the air?

:nopity:

[Violet_Crumble]

2. Why are Americans so fixated on domestic issues in Venezuela?

Most countries do have broadcasting standards and I'm not seeing how Venezuela is any different in this regard....

[toddaa]

3. Because Chavez is a COMMIE!!!!!

We yank shows off the air if they piss off Jesus, Allah, or Xenu. At least Hugo is real.

[Forkboy]

4. Most Americans aren't, just the threatened ones.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. I think they need to demonize a popular left wing leader

because it is such a contrast to the 30 years of rightwing corporatist tools that have been our leaders.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. At least no American president has ever tried to force, say, Saturday Night Live....

.....off the air for making satirical comments about him.

[Billy Burnett]

18. Bill Maher was shit canned.

Not by el presidente W, but by his mouthpiece network.

[EFerrari]

20. Chris Hedges, Bill Moyers, Dan Rather, Greg Palast, Donahue

Ashley Banfield, Christine Amanpour, Jeremy Scahill -- all harassed and some fired or arrested for criticizing government policy.

[Cerridwen]

22. Amy Goodman. Wasn't she arrested for reporting in MN?

What was that military woman's name...she was turned back at the Canadian border?

Damn. Can't search and I can't remember.

[EFerrari]

33. Amy was indeed arrested for doing her job at the RNC convention

along with two on her crew.

[Cerridwen]

11. Because if he is successful, it is proof that capitalism is not the only

and bestest(sic) way of running a country.

Too many people have too much of themselves invested in capitalistic values; and I'm not just talking money.

[davidinalameda]

12. last I looked

shows aren't yanked off the air in the US because the president doesn't like them

[Cerridwen]

14. Nope. They're pulled off the air because the corporations don't like them.

Corporations that have interesting ties to political parties.

[Violet_Crumble]

16. How would you know if it happened? You wouldn't...

Just like I bet those who fixate on every little detail when it comes to Venezuela don't care less when it comes to countries that are seen by the US as allies, like Israel and Australia, that both have draconian censorship ,and in the case of the former, attempts to shut down human rights groups that criticise the government.

When it comes to censorship in the US, you should read 'Manufacturing Consent' by Noam Chomsky. It's a great book and explains how in the US the media self-censors...

[Catherina]

15. It's become a pathological obsession

:hi:

[Billy Burnett]

17. Because he's a DICKTATER FOR LIFE!!11111!!!111111

Need we say more?

:rofl:

[boppers]

38. Most Americans aren't fixated on Venezuela.

DU, however, has a group of folks with a lot of interest in the region, and it's politics, so there are more stories on it here.

[Forkboy]

6. I could have used this during the Luke and Laura days.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

7. That's why it's awesome to be a dictator

Don't like a show.......it's GONE!

[Cerridwen]

13. Let's see, what was that movie about the regans that didn't make it

to US television? Or was it about the bush family? I forget which. What I do remember was it was pulled.

But that damned movie about Senator Kerry made it, didn't it?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

19. It was "The Reagans"

And it wasn't pulled by FCC pressure, but CBS bowing to boycott threats from the Brent Bozell types. That was back when right-wing groups were demanding everything in the post 9/11, Janet Jackson tit-bearing era and getting it.

I don't remember any film being made about John Kerry. When was this?

[Cerridwen]

21. Oh, yeah, it's much better when the corporations bow to political

pressure.

The "documentary" about Senator Kerry was "Stolen Honor" and it was used to attack him and his service during the campaign.

But, hey, it was just a political group putting it out with the help of the corporate media.

edit to making it "putting it out" rather than "putting out" though I think the original, Freudian "putting out" is probably more accurate. *snort*

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. Oh, the documentary

I thought someone made an actual fictionalized movie about Senator Kerry.

If I recall correctly, that was never aired either after similar political pressure.

[Cerridwen]

29. This google search link shows the airing times and dates as reported

on free republic; to which I will not link.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=stolen+honor+free+republic

[Dorian Gray]

45. And there

is one about the Kennedy family (starring Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear) that has been axed from The History Channel.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. I can almost imagine the scene at the TV network headquarters.

- Sir, "Chepe Fortuna" was censored.
- YESSSSS!!! Thank you Colombia, AGAIN!!!

[Catherina]

9. I can't wait to hear your tune when we have a show with a dog called Barack in it.

The rage here would be tremendous.

[11 Bravo]

44. And then President Obama would have the show yanked off the air, right?

[UTUSN]

23. K&R #1 for "Little Hugo"?!1 I called him "Huguito" in the HugoForum (LBN) and was

likewise castigated by the Hugo Brigade chief for "lacking respect" for a nation's leader!1

[Forkboy]

24. It's not the the lack of respect your comment reflects

[UTUSN]

28. Could it be my right to have an opinion and express it?!1 n/t

[Forkboy]

30. No, that's not it either.

[UTUSN]

37. HaHA!1 I'm admiring your restraint this go-round.But in your post #34 "buy-in to the media reporting

of (Huguito)" the hand is glimpsed. Just as Bernie GOLDDIGGER and other wingnuts claim that us Libs (and i ARE one, whatsoever detractors choose to fabricate) are brainwashed; recite "talking points" from above; are dupes and robots and other such ventriloquists' dummies ...

The only junk I read about Huguito comes from his followers here and the anti-him threads here, and it is the discussion or flamewars HERE that I note MORE, rather than the o.p. items the threads are supposedly about. The secret is that the closest I come to OBSESSING on the subject of him is his bombastic, a-hole, THUG personality that I detest in him as much as I do in wingnuts. And what can I say, the non-stop defense of his every breath and act by his followers here is just a popcorn spectacle!1

But I say again, I'm admiring the restraint here!1 Wowie!1

[Forkboy]

39. Yeah, I'm glad you haven't tipped your hand yet.

You sure showed me!

[UTUSN]

40. Oh, you *know* I HAVE (in your reading of things). It's just that *my* tipping

don't no mean what YOU say it is!1 Nighty night!1

[Forkboy]

41. LOL...your first reply was so hard to fathom.

Nighty night to you as well. Don't let those Hugo bugs bite. :rofl:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

31. Don't you know?

If you don't hail Chavez as the greatest world leader going and better than Obama, you are not a TRUE progressive. It's like how if you don't have the requisite amount of Smiths albums in your music collection you aren't cool.

[davidinalameda]

32. never really cared for The Smiths

or The Cure

I'm just not cool

[Violet_Crumble]

36. I hate to break it to you, but coolness has zero to do with those bands...

If yr not cool, there's other reasons behind it. I'm not sure why anyone would care whether they're cool or not, but there ya go...

[davidinalameda]

43. and they say conservatives have no sense of humor

you really should look up the word sarcasm in your dictionary

[Dorian Gray]

46. If you care

whether you're cool or not? You're not cool.

(ETA: Expanding on your point, not saying YOU aren't cool!)

[Forkboy]

34. I thought it was the other way around.....

If you don't buy into the media reporting of Chavez, the same media we're told to ignore when it criticizes Obama, then you don't have the requisite amount of Bruce Springsteen albums.

This is why I listen to black metal...both the Smiths and Bruce suck ass.

[Violet_Crumble]

35. I've yet to see anyone at DU hail Chavez as the greatest world leader...

I have, OTOH, seen some real hyperbole coming from some Americans who seem to have a real fixation with Chavez...

[Forkboy]

42. Me either, but toadies need something to make them feel better about being so.

[Very_Boring_Name]

25. Poor wittle dictator

Everyone is so mean to him!

[cynatnite]

27. Little Hugo...I love it...

:rofl:

Too bad the show had to fold due to censorship demands.