Lisseth Boon, a
veteran investigative journalist in Venezuela, was in her Caracas office on
Saturday when she came across the brazenly inaccurate claims from Donald Trump and
his chief spokesman about the size of the crowds at his inauguration. Her
response: “Déjà vu.” “That is so Venezuela,” she wrote on Twitter. She was not
alone.“I immediately thought
of Venezuela … (Former president Hugo) Chavez and his ministers always tried to
create a parallel reality,” said investigative journalist Tamoa Calzadilla, who
left the country for the U.S. in 2015 because of the oppressive media
environment under Chavez’s successor, Nicolas Maduro. “I’m so worried.” More…
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
‘Alternative facts’? Journalists from Venezuela to Turkey have ‘seen this movie before’
Lisseth Boon, a
veteran investigative journalist in Venezuela, was in her Caracas office on
Saturday when she came across the brazenly inaccurate claims from Donald Trump and
his chief spokesman about the size of the crowds at his inauguration. Her
response: “Déjà vu.” “That is so Venezuela,” she wrote on Twitter. She was not
alone.“I immediately thought
of Venezuela … (Former president Hugo) Chavez and his ministers always tried to
create a parallel reality,” said investigative journalist Tamoa Calzadilla, who
left the country for the U.S. in 2015 because of the oppressive media
environment under Chavez’s successor, Nicolas Maduro. “I’m so worried.” More…
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