Children's Tribunal prohibits El Nacional from publishing violent images (Spanish)

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/130808/tribunal-de-ninos-prohibe-a-el-nacional-publicar-imagenes-violentas

A judgement was imposed against El NAcional fining the paper for publishing violent images. El Nacional published a photo of the interior of the Bello Monte morgue in 2010 (with numerous bodies)

The Citizens Defense and the Public Ministry sued the news paper, considering the action as puting at risk the rights of children and adolescents to a healthy deveopment and the judgement ordered the newspaper not to diffuse similar photos.

A fine of 1% was imposed on their 2009 gross earnings.

The prohibition may be in contradiction of Article 57 of the Constitution that establsihes, "All persons have the right to freely express their thoughts, ideas, and opinions aloud, written, or through whatever other means of expression, and use for that whatever medium of communication and diffusion, without being censored."


Caracas.- Dos semanas después de que la Fiscal General anunciara que pedía a los tribunales que las cuentas personales del director de El Nacional, Miguel Henrique Otero, fueran congeladas, otro juzgado acaba de imponerle un multa y de paso le prohibió difundir imágenes de hechos violentos.

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La difusión de la imagen provocó la ira de las autoridades y la Defensoría del Pueblo y el Ministerio Público interpusieron una demanda contra el rotativo, por considerar que con su acción puso en riesgo el derecho de los niños y adolescentes a un desarrollo sano y en el marco de ese proceso el juzgado le ordenó cautelarmente a no difundir fotografías relacionadas con sucesos.

La jueza Araque le impuso a El Nacional una multa equivalente al 1 por ciento del total de la ventas brutas de la empresa en el año 2009.

La prohibición podría entrar en contradicción con el artículo 57 de la Constitución, el cual establece: "Toda persona tiene derecho a expresar libremente sus pensamientos, sus ideas u opiniones de viva voz, por escrito o mediante cualquier otra forma de expresión, y de hacer uso para ello de cualquier medio de comunicación y difusión, sin que pueda establecerse censura".

[Socialistlemur]

1. It is press censorship

The Maduro regime is increasingly repressive, this is probably due to increasing influence by the Cuban dictatorship. They get enormous economic benefits controlling Venezuela and they are probably making a move to shut down opposition and resistance to their rule. What I find very interesting is to see how the Cuban regime is simultaneously shifting to the right and turning fascist. In a sense it seems their plan is to build a fascist mini empire including Venezuela, Nicaragua and possibly Bolivia for a start. The Cubans will clamp down on the Venezuelans, and I bet we will see a lot less corruption. But economic guidance from Cubans raised in the Castro dictatorship is bound to be garbage. They are too wedded to their isolated economy to understand what steps they need to take.

[Marksman_91]

2. It's a good thing the Castros and a lot of Cuba's legislators are old as hell

Won't be much longer before they leave this Earth and let a younger, more well-prepared generation take over.

[Judi Lynn]

3. How many images of ANY bodies have you ever seen published in US media?

Thousands? Millions? Billions? To not publish dead guy photos would be censorship, eh?

Or would it be pathetic, crude, depraved, and barbaric?

[joshcryer]

4. Gaddafi?

I remember a time when we were actually disappointed that the media failed to show death and destruction in our media, particularly as it relates to the Iraq war, where the US media failed to show what was really happening there.

It is not pathetic, crude or depraved to show images like that. It is pathetic to keep the public from seeing those images. Every dead kid in the barrio needs to have their death photos published. Daily. Then maybe people will grow a conscious and stop murdering each other.

[Bacchus4.0]

5. just saw dozens and dozens lined up as a result of the Egypt crackdown on CNN

something tells me the FCC isn't going to fine CNN.

[Judi Lynn]

6. How many bodies of people on US soil, and in US morgues have you seen? Domestic?

Corporate media rejoices at the chance to run images which can be used as propaganda, but oddly, you never see dead guys starring in their domestic photo shots.

They probably fear it might frighten the fetuses too much. Gotta "perteck" them fetuses.

[Bacchus4.0]

7. wow, you are unhinged n/t

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