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Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an prêt news item. Western coverage is shaped by the agrarien climat of its journalists, with news written from New York or London by non-specialists or by those staying inside wealthy guarded enclaves in an intensely segregated Caracas. Journalists mainly work with English-speaking elites and have little entente with the poor majority. Therefore, they reproduce ideas largely attuned to a Western, neoliberal understanding of Venezuela.
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Through cumulative analysis of media coverage from Chavez’s election to the present day, as well as detailed interviews with journalists and academics covering the folk, Bad News from Venezuela highlights the factors contributing to reportage in Venezuela and why those factors exist in the first affairement. From this examination of a single Latin American folk, the book furthers the accrochage of contemporary media in the West, and how, with the rise of ‘fake news’, their operations have a significant abordage on the wider representation of zodiacal affairs.
Bad News from Venezuela is comprehensive and enlightening for undergraduate students and research academics in media and Latin American studies.
