*World social alternative meeting tackles Wester Media campaigns
*U.S. govt. funds think tanks and NOGS contracted by global media
*Outlets don’t reflect transition to a new global order
*U.S. govt. funds think tanks and NOGS contracted by global media
*Outlets don’t reflect transition to a new global order
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00:00Venezuelan authorities denounced a Western media campaign targeting the country's institutions.
00:04Journalists currently in Caracas for a convention of the ALBA confirm it, provide examples and
00:10discuss countermeasures.
00:13The Council of Venezuela is the institution to supervise the elections, count the votes
00:17and announce the results.
00:19Its directorate is comprised of five members, with two being from the opposition.
00:24Usually above politics, its president lost patience.
00:29Attacks have been permanent.
00:31From here I denounce the media campaign which has been paid off with dirty money.
00:38Money from drug trafficking.
00:41Money that has been robbed from you, Venezuelans.
00:44The gold that has been taken from us.
00:48They robbed us the oil seagull company, which has been in the United States.
00:56And that money is being used by foreigners to apply a campaign of destruction against
01:00the Venezuelan people, aimed at sabotaging these elections.
01:17Western media campaigns were also a topic on the second meeting for a world social alternative
01:22convened by the ALBA on 23rd and 24th of July in Caracas.
01:27Western journalists provided concrete examples.
01:30Anatoly Kurmanaev, who works for the New York Times, told me on camera, after only about
01:35ten minutes of chatting, that he regularly inserts grossly exaggerated factoids and false
01:43news into his reporting, and he and his colleagues see themselves as, quote, mercenaries for
01:50hire, and that he really works to serve an agenda.
01:55He described how he planted a story that went viral worldwide about condoms costing $750
02:01here, and he described that as a sexy trick that he and other journalists use.
02:07According to McLeod, the US government funds think tanks and NGOs which then provide information
02:13and argumentation to local oppositional journalists, contracted increasingly by international media.
02:20And so this is a perfect circle where the US government pays for the information it
02:26wants its citizens to see.
02:29Vijay Prashad, director of the Three Continental Institute for Social Research, describes how
02:34the West establishes thus a narrative.
02:37The Western media has been saying that the problem in Venezuela is corruption or the
02:43problem in Venezuela is lack of democracy.
02:46It's pretty clear that the real problem in Venezuela is it hasn't been able to sell its
02:51oil to get revenue.
02:53If Venezuela was able to get its revenue, things would be very different.
02:58So they have been suffocating this country and denying that that suffocation is happening.
03:03The British journalist says that the world is in a transition which should be reflected
03:07also in the media.
03:09And as we enter a more multipolar world, we do see media from other countries try to break
03:14through into that monopoly.
03:16What we have to do is we have to encourage that, but we also don't just need state media,
03:20we also need alternative media which will be viewer-supported or reader-supported.
03:25We need to very much encourage these things.
03:27We need to use social media as much as we can, but we also have to build our own networks
03:31and get away from corporate-controlled news.