Now, I totally support the Solidarity Press Blackout and everything, but I’m beginning to wonder if they’re maybe not taking it a little far. Day II of the 5th anniversary of the coup, and still no mention of it except for, once again, a beautifully fabricated blurb on the AP wires saying that Chavez resigned because his military leaders couldn’t get along or something:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from the country's divided military. (However, he was returned to office two days later.)
This is all pretty remarkable and subversive and historic and revolutionary and stuff, but even Orson Wells let his audience in on the gag after the first broadcast.
