Telesur almost ready to hit the airwaves

w-a-a-a-ay back on may 27 (light years ago in blogosphere time), i posted on the new 24/7 latin american news channel, telesur, being set up in caracas as a joint venture of argentina, cuba, uruguay and venezuela... it's coming along...

Late this month, Telesur--short for Television of the South--will begin broadcasting 24 hours a day across Latin America. While the network's goal is nothing short of changing the way Latin Americans view themselves and their news, critics say the station could become a propaganda tool for the region's re-emerging left.

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"Why do we have to continue seeing ourselves through the eyes of others?" asked Aharonian [Aram Aharonian, the station's general director], a 59-year-old Uruguayan who has lived in Caracas since 1986. "Now we are going to begin seeing ourselves through our own eyes."

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John Dinges, associate professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, said he did not expect Telesur to toe the middle line. But he said that did not mean the new network was without merit.

"Generally in Latin America, the fact that a station has a political point of view does not rule them out of the club of good journalism," Dinges said. "I would love to see a successful television channel with hard-hitting journalism about Latin America."

any bets on whether telesur will be offered as part of u.s. cable or satellite line-ups...?

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