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Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty years of fake news and misreporting (Routledge Focus on Communication and Society) 1st Edition

by Alan Macleod (Author)

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Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an important news item. Western coverage is shaped by the cultural milieu 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 contact with the poor majority. Therefore, they reproduce ideas largely attuned to a Western, neoliberal understanding of Venezuela.

Through extensive analysis of media coverage from Chavez’s election to the present day, as well as detailed interviews with journalists and academics covering the country, Bad News from Venezuela highlights the factors contributing to reportage in Venezuela and why those factors exist in the first place. From this examination of a single Latin American country, the book furthers the discussion of contemporary media in the West, and how, with the rise of ‘fake news’, their operations have a significant impact on the wider representation of global affairs.

Bad News from Venezuela is comprehensive and enlightening for undergraduate students and research academics in media and Latin American studies.

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Alan MacLeod is a member of the Glasgow Media Group and completed his thesis in sociology in 2017. He specialized in media theory and analysis.

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Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (April 11, 2018)
Language : English
Hardcover : 168 pages
ISBN-10 : 1138489239
ISBN-13 : 978-1138489233
Item Weight : 15 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches

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Extremely well researched

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2019

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The author went to great lengths to analyze western media's depiction of Venezuela through various periods in its recent history. Pre-Chaves, during the coup and post-Chaves. His conclusions, though not surprising, paint a clear picture of misinformation by mainstream media in western countries.

8 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2019

This book is a masterful piece of media criticism that explains why media is so biased against Venezuela. Students of media and journalism must read this!

14 people found this helpful

Matthew Dolezal

Essential reading

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2019

This book (which is based on MacLeod's PhD thesis) is a crucial resource for understanding the current situation in Venezuela, as well as how Western media coverage exacerbates the crisis by manufacturing consent for continued American meddling in the country's economic and political affairs.

12 people found this helpful

Bias socialism propaganda

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2019

as a Venezuelan who know of first hand the situation pf the country I found this book as propaganda full of lies to made independent reporters and Venezuelans as the criminals, this is just wrong and insulting to find someone to the extreme to lie just to make some people believe in a fail ideology.

6 people found this helpful

Western propagandist defends slavery of Latin Americans because dictator likes red

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2019

Another ivory tower academic defending the miserable dictatorship that keeps my people enslaved. Because we are all little puppets for his revolutionary fantasy who couldn't possibly be opposed to a Stalinist boot on our face forever and economic ruin from insane Marxist policies unless paid by the CIA. Standard propaganda. I suppose writing this garbage makes him feel like a big revolutionary.

6 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2018

If I could give this 0 stars I would do it. The writer do not know anything about what is happening in Venezuela. Having a clearly bias towards socialism he blames the media for not representing the reality of Venezuela. You would be better reading anything about economics (is clear that the writer haven’t read anything about this) if you want to understand what is happening in Venezuela.

12 people found this helpful

This book is also part of the FAKE news problem no even a star

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2019

As a reporter and person, I understand having a preference and idealism that gives preference to the Venezuelan government so you are taken their side and the book is not a reflection of the reality in the country joining the FAKE newsgroup

3 people found this helpful

Jonathan Sigrist

The best way to understand the western press's clear negative bias when reporting on Venezuela.

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2019

Absolutely insightful and well written empirical study of 20 years of aweful reporting from the Western press. I can only recommend.

4 people found this helpful

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Read this book if you want to learn how the world works.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 23, 2019

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This quote from the book sums up best why this book is so important and beneficial to this society: "Although this book is ostensibly about Venezuela, it actually tells us more about the structure of Western media and how it functions." That is why you should read this book. Learn about the Venezuelan situation, and apply that knowledge to other geopolitical hotspots.

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