Remembering Chile's 9/11




The Listening Post show

Summary: Chile has just marked the 40th anniversary of the military coup that ousted the democratically-elected President Salvador Allende, replacing him with Augusto Pinochet, a dictator who would rule the country for the next 18 years. Over the decades, the anniversary has come and gone with little mention in Chile's media but this year was different.Mainstream news outlets unleashed a deluge of memory, breaking through the previously self-imposed limits of what television channels would say and show about the Pinochet era and their apparent complicity in his dictatorship. Also on Listening Post: Norway's new, slow, reality TV fad. The Listening Post's Marcela Pizarro went to Oslo to find out why Norwegians are tuning in to Slow TV.