Who protects those who protect? Freedom of expression, questioned in the middle of the countryside

Much can be said about Cristina Kirchner, but something at this stage of the campaign is indisputable: It keeps intact its ability to install the agenda. By case, we continue to talk pindongas and of cuchuflitos. The odd hermeneutic of the opposition press about a fairly simple premise about ita loss of quality of popular consumption and a newspaper article The country The senator summed up in a tweet from Spain: "The media armor is so obscene that Macri and Vidal have this, as in other sad times, to understand what is happening in our country and in the province of Buenos Aires, we must resort to the international press"Of course, he has contacted this handful of characters to talk to all the microclimate of this subject that we like to hate and on which everyone has his opinion.

The media armor available to Macri and Vidal is so obscene that, as in other sad times, to understand what is happening in our country and in the province of Buenos Aires, we must resort to the international press .

Look at the rating of El País de España. https://t.co/lycf4kIHOi

– Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) July 24, 2019

The former president is not the first to put the magnifying glbad on the subject, which has been denounced by the opposition media since the early months of the presidency of Mauricio Macri and this has recently begun to sneak through the meshes of some political programs into more related channels. At present, there is ample evidence that the protection provided by certain means to the administration is changing. It has no comparison with other affinity experiments between the press society and the government in recent history. Or Nestor Kirchner, to whom the newspaper The nation He received a 180-day warrant. or Fernando De La Rúa at the beginning of its management; not even Carlos Menem on the crest of the wave, they were supported by major channels such as Let's Change over those three and a half years.

Today in @Intratables We talked about Fernández's campaign, opinions and answers to journalists. I calmly stated that there was 85% of media aligned. Well pic.twitter.com/PpdquOQSw8

– Ramón Indart (@rindart) July 11, 2019

With this precious help, the ruling party was building its own story. An example, also paradigmatic, is the commonplace, rarely questioned in the general public, which this government is exemplary in terms of freedom of expression. To arrive at this conclusion, it is necessary to ignore, for example, that a boot protected by the federal police is entered in the newspaper Argentino Weather, hit the workers and destroy their tools in what was perhaps the most serious attack on freedom of the press since 1983; that whenever there was an episode of repression of demonstrations against the government journalists and photographers were counted among those arrested, shot and beaten; that there were, under this administration, people arrested for tweeting against the president or insulting him during an election tour

The fact that Cristóbal López and Fabián De Sousa, owners of the main opposition television channel, are imprisoned for tax debt; and that one of them, De Sousa, told federal prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan that Macri himself attended three meetings where they were overcrowded "change the editorial line of your media" and put them "in the service of imprisoning former President Fernández de Kirchner". The statement, in the context of an extortion complaint involving the president, gives details of the venue of these three meetings (Usina del Arte, the GCBA headquarters in Patricios Park and the home of Franco Macri) , when they were done and who participated and witnessed the maneuver. It should not be complicated Check the truth or falsity of these statements.

Examples of overwhelming freedom of expression under the Macri government are more numerous and could occupy several times the space of this column: the loss of more than four thousand jobs in the press across the country; urging media owners to leave journalists without space; lthe refusal of the president and key political figures of the ruling party to give interviews to critical media; the lack of transparent information on the management of the official guideline, which is not only distributed among the media, but also goes directly into the pockets of some spokespersons. And yet, much of the press that sees itself as independent does not hesitate to badert that Argentina's Cambiemos is a panacea for those working in the journalism profession. This is what Fernández de Kirchner describes as media armor

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– El Destape (@eldestapeweb) July 24, 2019

Last Monday, the presidential candidate of Frente de Todos, Alberto Fernandez, gave an interview to Joaquín Morales Solá in his TV show TN. Despite the mutual appreciation they profess, it was a firm exchange, in which the presidential candidate was stronger than his interlocutorr, leaving him speechless several times in front of an exhibition which was moving away from the characterization of Kirchnerism that Morales Solá and TN had helped to create. He perfectly described Martín Becerra in an article for Letter P: the reporter could not reply to the data provided by Fernández (not all correct) "because I ignored, clearly and simply, thisand there was an elaborate perspective on the other side, not a cartoon or a distorted slogan as described by the Peronism of Opposition, and especially Kirchnerism, in its columns and those of its colleagues. "

In the light of the facts, it is worth asking if the figures of the main official media participate voluntarily in the construction of the electoral composition of the government (I prefer this term, more flexible, to the hardness of the shield, because, contrary to what It maintains CFK, today it is not necessary to go to the foreign press to find out what is happening in Argentina and the opposition media, struggling with economic and political difficulties, are working daily and are chosen by more and more citizens of this country) or they are not, themselves, trapped by their own partialityWhat? prevents them from recognizing a valid interlocutor in the opponent, that they believe very different from what it really is. Armored armor, they make the mistake of taking the one they sell and This mistake can be very expensive in the middle of the election campaign.