The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The internet has always been an empowering force, impossible for anyone to control or withhold any kind of media according to Joe Trippi. Trippi discusses how internet inherently promotes the greater democracy through citizen engagement. That Internet-based politics can be engineered with the simple help and contribution of ordinary people to inspire, plan, organize, improve and lead. So at least in theory the internet can change political positions. The private media; internet can alter these positions by shifting focus to other events.

A Coup is certainly an event that seems impossible of being covered up by media. But on April 11th 2002 the opposition in Venezuela proved that any type of media can be used as a great tool for a revolution. The Venezuelan coup attempt on President Hugo Chavez in 2002 was a big example of how internet and media can effect democracy. In the documentary The Revolution Will Not Be Televised it explains how privately owned television channels and upper class business oppositions organized and promoted demonstrations with these means of private media.