Ted Rall for February 22, 2003
Transcript:
Woman: The media doesn't really censor the news- they selectively edit out inconvenient facts. Take Venezuela where president Hugo Chavez's government is fighting striking oil workers. It looks like a right-wing dictator crushing a labor movement. But the oil workers didn't strike- their bosses, who conspired with U.S. officials to pull off a coup D'etat, locked them out! They reported this stuff once. But if you missed it, you have no way of knowing that Chavez is pro-worker or that bush's "Diplomats" tried to depose him! Man: Actually, I avoid this kind of thing by remaining uninformed. Woman: My God- you've got it all figured out!