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A Narco
News Global Alert:
June 19, 2002
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Dear Colleagues,
After a very brief flurry
of post-coup corrections and meas culpas, the simulators
of the mass media (from the Four Horsemen of Simulation - AP,
Reuters, New York Times and CNN - on down to yesterday's
Christian Science Monitor) have reverted to their same
unsubstantiated rumor-mongering fictional coverage of the immediate
history underway in Venezuela.
What is, in fact, ocurring
in Venezuela these days is far more interesting than any of them
want to inform you, because it involves the development of popular
methods to weaken the illusory power of them, the caste members
of the mass media, too.
Therefore, The Narco
News Bulletin makes this announcement to our readers and
colleagues, and serves notice to the simulators and Otto Reichians
alike:
The information blockade
will not stand. The
Narco Newsroom this week begins reporting directly from Venezuela.
We bring you the unspun authentic news, uncensored, from the
voices that the simulators are trying to block from your ears
and eyes: those of the Venezuelan people, its media workers in
revolt, and its democratically elected leaders.
Stay tuned for the authentic
news.
From somewhere else, yet
again, in a country called América,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews@hotmail.com
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Another Attempted
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D.R. 2002 by Al Giordano
Hey
Otto Reich, Hey Media Simulators:
We're Here, We're
Narco News,
and We're In Your
Face!
LIVE FROM VENEZUELA
Full Report Coming:
The Behavior of
Commercial
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Democracy
Narco News '02
Authentic
Journalism on the "War on Drugs" in Latin America
"The Name
of Our Country is América" - Simón Bolívar
Gorman's
South American Round-up:
"My Friend,
Langley" in
Brazil, Perú
and Colombia
By Peter Gorman
Special to the Narco News Bulletin
by The
Week Online
DRCNet.org
Perception
management
of the
US's terror war
By Doug Stokes
The
Most Dangerous Drug...
...the
Most Alienated Job
Section III of The Medium
is The Middleman now up
With
Updated Notes on "Authentic
Journalism"
& Venezuela Coup
Immedia
Summer in Bloom!
Historic Statement
by
Venezuela Media
Workers
"It was made abundantly
clear from the disastrous
image of those days of disinformation, in which the majority
of employees, reporters and journalists put our lives on the
line only for media owners and board members to decide not to
publish anything and hide from the public the serious events
that were taking place in the streets, while mainstream TV channels
aired old movies as if nothing was happening. We all must assume
those days of confusion, tensions, interests, and mistakes with
courage and rectify with deep sincerity. No more manipulation.
We workers say firmly and responsibly that we will not accept
such behavior again."
- Venezuelan
Media Workers Statement
Caracas,
June 10, 2002
European Authentic Journalist
Tackles Simulators of
"Press Freedom"
"Closing its eyes to the one of the most odious
media campaigns ever launched against a democratic government,
the organisation Reporters sans Frontières ("Reporters
Without Borders") has allowed itself to be manipulated and
has published several reports against the Chavez government,
which has never limited freedom of expression, banned media,
or arrested a journalist."
- Ignacio
Ramonet
from
Le Monde Diplomatique
A Revolution
for a
Narcotized
Society
By Al
Giordano
Lea
Ud. el Masa-fiesto en Español:
The New Introduction
to the 1997 Text
and the Secret
History of Narco News...
By Roldan Tomasz Suarez
Vheadline.com
With
New Introductions by
Lisa
Fithian and Al Giordano
Special to the Narco News Bulletin
A Narco
News White Paper:
Online
Journalism's Finest Hour!
Consult
the Archives of
América
Reborn
Up-to-the-Minute
Venezuela
Colombia Discussion
Boards Now Open at...
Narco
News Opens South America Office
Andean
Bureau Chief
for
Narco News
Why
Authentic Journalism?
Where
did Narco
News Come From?
The
Secret History... Revealed
"Narco News, its website, and the writers
who post information, are entitled to all the First Amendment
protections accorded a newspaper-magazine or journalist... Furthermore,
the nature of the articles printed on the website and Mr. Giordano's
statements at Columbia University constitute matters of public
concern because the information disseminated relates to the drug
trade and its affect on people living in this hemisphere..."
-- Supreme
Court of the State of New York
December
5, 2001
"And in the cause of journalism
we're also pleased
about a recent ruling by Judge Paula Omansky of the New York
State Supreme Court dismissing libel charges against Mario Menendez,
a Mexican journalist, and Al Giordano, editor and publisher of
Narco News, an Internet magazine (www.narconews.com),
published in Mexico, that reports on corruption and the drug
war in Latin America.... Banamex took him to court in Mexico
and lost. The bank then sued Narco News, along with Menendez,
in New York. Again they lost in what is a stirring victory for
freedom of speech on the Internet. Narco News has broken
important stories on the drug war. If it had lost, a chill could
have settled over the web."
-- The
Nation magazine
Issue of January
28, 2001
From somewhere
in Rio de Janeiro... a drawing by Latuff
Narco
News
Beat
Banamex
Victory
Extends to All Online Journalists
Now
on the EFF website:
It Protects
You, Too
What
is The Narco News Bulletin?
The Narco News Bulletin works to tell the truth. We call
it as we see it. Yet we are conscious that it's our truth. The
whole truth can only be constructed by the participation of the
people. Thus, we strive to work together, to collaborate, with
your truth and the truths of others, "to make a bigger truth."
We invite your comments,
corrections, criticisms, news tips and participation. Narco News
accepts letters from our readers. Contact us with your truth.
-- From
the First Day of Publication, April 18, 2000
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...and
Neither is the Revolution
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