Venezuela: CNN Can Stay

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At a press conference Friday night (Feb. 21) with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan officials said CNN could stay in the country, the cable network said, a day after revoking its credentials and saying its journalists would be thrown out of the country if they did not "rectify" their coverage of the ongoing violence there.

Maduro had branded the coverage war propaganda.

CNN still had a pair of reporters in country to cover the anti-government violence, though a CNN en Espanol anchor, Patricia Janoit, had left and appeared on CNN air to talk about her ordeal.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had branded the revocation a threat to all journalists and to the Venezuelan people.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.