Reply #7: RCTV should be shut down, but I disagree with how Chavez did it. [View All]

[Selatius]

The law as it has been written since 1987 simply says that the decision to renew or revoke a broadcast license is up to the executive branch; however, it doesn't stipulate anything in the form of public hearings to allow the public to weigh in on the issue or anything resembling a trial, and it doesn't stipulate how the allotted airwaves, if it has been revoked from the corporation, should be handled. It doesn't mandate a public auction where the alloted airwaves are given to a new corporation or an alternative route that turns the station over to the workers organized as a news enterprise cooperative where the workers are essentially the shareholders.