Propaganda on Venezuela

More on neoliberal mainstream media propaganda about Venezuela based on misrepresentation and exaggeration.

Yes, there is a crisis, but the new reporting is way overblown. 

Sensationalism to get eyeballs and clicks in order to increase ad revenue, or ideological political spin as part of the information war aimed at regime change, or both?

Defend Democracy
How Severe Is Venezuela’s Crisis?

Gabriel B Hetland, assistant professor of Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies at University at Albany, SUNY

The Real News Network
Media Exaggerations of Apocalyptic Venezuela Plays into Regime Change Narrative

Sharmini Peries interviews Gabriel B Hetland, assistant professor of Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies at University at Albany, SUNY; and Rachael Boothroyd Rojas freelance journalist and doctoral candidate in Latin American studies at the University of Liverpool, UK, who has lived in Venezuela for almost five years and currently works for Venezuelanalysis.

ht Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism