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A new study by the Media Research Centerfound that the three major networks ABC, NBC, and CBS have dedicated a minuscule amount of coverage to the growing economic and civil rights crises including catastrophic levels of unemployment, hunger, and inflation, and the brutal repression of peaceful protests by the controlling government in Venezuela.

Additionally, MRC found that when the networks actually havecovered the crisis, theyve rarely mentioned the governments socialist system as a factor in the nationstroubles.

MRCbased itstimeline fromMarch 2013 (after socialist Venezuelan President HugoChavez death)through May 29, 2017. Through that time, ABC, NBC, and CBS evening news shows aired a total of25 stories on the Venezuelan crisis, totaling 28 minutes, and 39 seconds of coverage on the socialist country. This amounts to almost 3o seconds a month.

The major networks dedicated no news stories to the advancement of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduros powers within Venezuela, including in November 2013 when then-socialist controlled National Assembly giving Maduro emergency powers, which permitted him to bypass the National Assembly and rule by decree, orin May 2017 when thesocialist-dominated Supreme Court ruled to strip power from the opposition-lead Congress.

MRC noted that human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch made condemnations of human rights violations in places such as Syria, and Venezuela. Of the 17 times the Human Rights Watch, and 14 times Amnesty International were mentioned by the networks over the four-year period,the condemnations of Venezuela by the human rights groups have gone completely untouched by the media, said the MRC.

Furthermore, of the 25 stories dedicated to Venezuela by the three networks, onlyseven of the stories mentioned socialisms involvement. ABC World News never mentioned socialismat all, CBS Evening News mentioned it once, and NBC Nightly News mentioned it six times.

ABC did mention socialism on Nightline whenMatt Gutman said inFebruary 2014 said, When the price of oil crashed, the economy went with it, exposing the failures of Hugo Chavezs socialist government.

The MRC gave examples of how socialism was addressed by the major networks, and neither seem to highlight socialisms effects on the country, mentioning it only in passing.

From the MRC:

One of the exceptions: On the April 20 NBC Nightly News, correspondent Jacob Rascon noted that The Venezuelan economy has been in freefall for yearsProtesters blamed President Nicolas Maduro and his socialist government.

On May 4, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley finally used the term for the first time since Chavezs death, when reporting on the worsening situation. Running battles continue in Venezuelas capital. They broke out a month ago when the socialist president tried to grab more power. At least 37have been killed.

Maduros socialist government has controls, or has part ownership in over 500 companies, 70 percent of which are bleeding money. This in turn has caused many to lose their jobs, leading to 25 percent unemployment. To combat the growing problem, Maduro hiked minimum wage for the third time in a year to over 65,000 bolivars a month.

Inflation is expected to surge to over 750 percent, making the bolivar virtually worthless.

Venezuelas major economic, and food shortagecrises have put the socialist country on the brink of civil war as thousands of rioters burn property, loot stores, and engage in violence with Venezuelan authorities. Venezuelan security forces have in turn engaged in brutal violence against the protesters and rioters.

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