“What’s Not Published in Venezuela Is What Media Owners Don’t Want Published”

Eleazar Diaz Rangel, the editor-in-chief of Ultimas Noticias, Venezuela’s highest-circulating newspaper, stressed at a seminar on Venezuela’s democracy taking place this weekend in New York that “what’s not published in Venezuela is what media owners don’t want published.”

Rangel, who participated in the seminar’s final panel, noted that he has asked for evidence of news not being published in Venezuela because of government pressure at various international forums on freedom of the press. “No one has ever offered me any examples,” he said. The well-known journalist also called attention to the debates that are taking place throughout the region with regards to the role of media in democratic societies and the necessity that the media be independent not only of the government, but also of economic interests.

(via Instapaper)