2023-11-15 20:49:07
The elected national representative of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Lilia Lemoine, assured this Wednesday that the public media will be privatized during an eventual Government of Javier Milei and recommended to a Public TV reporter that she try to “be a good worker.” a statement that was repudiated by the workers of the public channel as a “threat” to press freedom.
“We are going to close Public TV, we are going to privatize Public TV. The public media are going to be privatized, so try to be a good worker,” Lemoine assured in statements to a reporter from the public channel, while she toured the Constitución station.
Public TV workers repudiated Lemoine’s statements
Shortly after, Public TV workers issued a press release to repudiate these statements and warned that Lilia Lemoine “despises freedom of the press and workers.”
“We repudiate the threat issued today by Lilia Lemoine to the TVP Noticias journalistic team that conducted the interview,” they stated on their account on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Lilia Lemoine: “We are going to close Public TV, we are going to privatize it”
The national representative elected by La Libertad Avanza threatened a journalist from Public Television: “the public media are going to be privatized so try to be a good worker” pic.twitter.com/tFsfSx48eF
— Televisión Pública (@TV_Publica) November 15, 2023
The Public Defender’s Office also highlighted that the “right to communication is a social good” and that, in accordance with the law, “the activities carried out by audiovisual communication services are of public interest and fundamental for the sociocultural development of the population.” ”.
Along these lines, the Public TV workers pointed out that the fact of having published the interview with Lemoine constitutes “a demonstration of the plurality of voices that governs the channel and the public media.”
Buenos Aires. The statement from Public TV after the statements of the elected representative Lilia Lemoine.
“The threat, which is part of a general policy of La Libertad Avanza, expresses the contempt of the space headed by Javier Milei for professionals, workers in general,” they added on social networks.
Lemoine adds more controversies
Lemoine was in the news in recent hours for expressing his support for the far-right leader, Carlos Pampillón, who faces charges for anti-Semitic attacks and responsible for the dissemination of a call for insubordination of the Armed Forces, although he later apologized and said that it was of a mistake on your part.
Before the general election, Lemoine announced his decision to push for a bill so that male fathers could renounce paternity if they wanted to.
The Public Defender’s Office, through a statement, declared that “the right to communication is an inalienable human right to express, receive, disseminate and investigate information, ideas and opinions” and noted that public media were created by article 119. of the Audiovisual Communication Services Law, which gave rise to Radio and Television Argentina Sociedad del Estado, administrator of Public TV and all National Radio stations.
He stressed that, among the objectives of the public media, are to “promote and develop respect for the human rights enshrined in the National Constitution, guarantee the right to information, respect and promote political, religious and social pluralism and guarantee the news coverage throughout the national territory.”
????Concern over threats to a worker at the @TV_Publica
In the face of the threat to a worker, we reaffirm the role of journalism, the media and especially the public media in the construction of a democratic and plural society (cont.) pic.twitter.com/PkbJpiR9U9
— Public Defender (@DefdelPublico) November 15, 2023
“Any attempt to ignore current legislation goes against democracy and citizen participation,” the Ombudsman concluded.
*With information from the Télam agency.
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