Al Jazeera in Caracas...?
Telesur, a regional public TV network envisioned as a Latin American version of the Arab world's Al Jazeera broadcasting group, was officially launched Tuesday at a ceremony in the Venezuelan capital.
The fledgling broadcasting company is jointly owned by Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela.
"After 513 years of looking at ourselves through foreign eyes, we Latin Americans are beginning to see ourselves through our own eyes," said the director of the new regional network, Aram Arahonian, a Uruguayan journalist based in Venezuela for the last 18 years, at the official ceremony.
i'm headed down that way soon... i'll be interested to see if it's being carried on the cable outlets in buenos aires and, if it is, what kind of stories they'll be serving up... Submit To Propeller
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The fledgling broadcasting company is jointly owned by Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela.
"After 513 years of looking at ourselves through foreign eyes, we Latin Americans are beginning to see ourselves through our own eyes," said the director of the new regional network, Aram Arahonian, a Uruguayan journalist based in Venezuela for the last 18 years, at the official ceremony.
i'm headed down that way soon... i'll be interested to see if it's being carried on the cable outlets in buenos aires and, if it is, what kind of stories they'll be serving up... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
5/27/2005
