Media Censorship and layoffs in the "independent newspaper" La Voz del Interior
Circle Press Association and the Communication of Córdoba (CISPR-CTA) today denounced an episode of censorship that "it is exemplary of how media workers and the right to information of citizens have been among the main victims of crossfire in recent weeks among the owners of state land owners and the owners of communication" .
" At the peak agricultural conflict, the newspaper La Voz del Interior rejected an article on the subject to Henry Lacolla columnist and editorial writer who wrote for 33 years. Subsequently, to transcend the incident, the company decided disaffected Lacolla of writing, and perpetrating a double act of censorship and intolerance , CISPR revealed today in a press release.
Against this, the Internal Trade Union Commission Newspapers considered "extreme" to the measure because "it deprives all, peers, colleagues and readers in general, a different word in national journalism, which has shown courage and firm position of their convictions, compared to the flatness and banality today imposed mainstream media. " The reversal of Lacolla
, which began with the rejection of an article entitled "The sedition of the field," agrees with the assumption of total control of the company Cimec-owner of The Voice "by Grupo Clarín, which participates directly in agribusiness and has in its directory with powerful landowners and businessmen in the agricultural sector. The message is clear: there is no place for ideological dissent in the mainstream media. And less at a time when conflicts are resolved in their own interests or its allies.
Among them, the Argentine Association of Journalistic Entities (Adepa) entity that is often masked in the alleged claim of press freedom advocacy of free enterprise and the information monopoly, said these days in a request: "In its diversity, the press in Argentina has given ample proof of fairness, objectivity and equidistance may exhibit a democratic path, in many cases, covers homeland vicissitudes over more than a century. "
The statement is nothing short of hypocritical, if you have a memory-to name just a few of these "vicissitudes" - of the complicity of major media companies with the genocide perpetrated by the military dictatorship and the economic model of exclusion social conceived in those years and deepened during the 90's, aiding the latter that is offset to the empowerment of the media, namely the consecration of information monopoly. CISPR
already reported last week that Adepa imposture, that "warns about the inconvenience of the words of the President and is proud of monitoring press freedom, while their partners are tired of practicing censorship as dictated by desirability of the company. " For Lacolla is a sad and eloquent sample.
This is a landmark case that should lead to wonder about the alleged "cracks" that are a brave and talented communicator to be located within these increasingly concentrated media. If a journalist, intellectual and university professor of prestige and career Lacolla this happens, we expect to still believe in the social mandate of journalism.
" CISPR-now stands in solidarity with fellow public-Enrique Lacolla, while rejects and denounces the double standards of Adepa and La Voz del Interior, gagged while their workers with one hand, the other wielding a banner on which they do not believe or respect. "