Reply #163: Unfortunately, it's not only the US who sees Chávez as a danger. [View All]

In the past few years, Dutch media, including public radio and television (which is half state-sponsored and half paid for by taxes), are writing and broadcasting nothing but bad stories about Hugo Chávez. They're always very one-sided and sound like the stories you'd hear in American media. E.g., when a few months ago Chávez legitimatly shut down the tv station which participated in the attempted coup against him in 2002, Dutch media barely mentioned the part the station played in the coup. And when they mentioned it, all they said was that Chávez accused the station of being involved, thus making it look like Chávez made it up. I wrote angry e-mails to newspaper editors, but none of them acknowledged their one-sided bias.