2024-03-22 21:48:45
One month after taking office, Juan Parodi resigned from the executive direction of Public TV. He television producer He officially announced today that he will leave office at the end of the month, after a meeting he held this morning – like every Friday – with the Secretary of Communication and Press Eduardo Serenellini. Parodi’s resignation takes place within the framework of a plan to empty Public TV, in which the lifting of all daily live programming and several editions of the state station’s newscast was announced, leaving only two (noon and central) from Monday to Friday. In addition, the workers denounced various acts of “censorship” by the current management.
The official version of Parodi’s departure from the executive direction of the state channel says that his resignation is because “he has already fulfilled the task for which he was summoned.” In that version given by those close to him, the owner of the production company The Magic Eye -who made the biography Sandro from America, together with Telefe, carried out the internal audit to find out the situation of the channel, whose reports have already been delivered. In addition, he planned a programming proposal for the channel, which he will present next week, before leaving office. The completion of both efforts, plus “the commitment he has to creating content for a platform,” led him to present his resignation.
However, Other sources report that his resignation from Public TV has to do with the strong internal situation that exists in RTA.. It must be remembered that a little over a month ago one of the deputy auditors of RTA resigned, Diego Marias, leaving Diego Chaher, the other controller, as the only strong man in the state company. Chaher served for decades as legal advisor to Grupo América, a company where Parodi had been programming director of América TV between 2005 and 2007. Another of those who resigned less than a month after taking office was Cristian Sedanthe manager of Public Contents SE, the company that has Canal Encuentro, Pakapaka and DeporTV under its orbit.
The abrupt resignations and changes that occurred in the structure of the government’s Communication area demonstrate the importance that Milei gives to these portfolios, in addition to the jealousy that it arouses for its management. The decision to empty the public media for subsequent privatization seems to be a non-negotiable objective for the national government. Any official who attempts any possible production proposal and requests any budget is immediately ejected from the position.
Coincidentally, or not, Parodi had been singled out by the Assembly of Public Television Press Workers (Sipreba) as one of those responsible, along with Fabian Gijón, the brand new news manager from the LN+ signal, of a “censorship never seen in our history.”
“During other political stages, with efforts that responded to different governments in power, we have had differences, criticisms and even public complaints, which can be easily accessed on the internet. In no case was there a level of censorship as grotesque as in this one,” the workers say in the statement. And they exemplify: “an example fits to illustrate this: in the broadcast of the opening of sessions on March 1st on the national network, only pro-government legislators were shown, in a paradox built on the basis of short shots to cover the sun with their hands; since La Libertad Avanza has a notable minority in parliament.”
The public complaint lists some of the acts of censorship that occurred during the management of Chaher’s intervention in RTA. “No voice that questions official policies or criticizes President Javier Milei is allowed to be aired; “the statements of Ignacio Torres, governor of Chubut and his Minister of Economy, were prevented from airing during the dispute with the national government”; “The voice of the Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof was prevented from being heard during the opening of ordinary sessions when he referred to the policies of the national government”; “they do not allow the sending of teams to cover important events in the rest of the country, such as the serious floods that are currently affecting the Entre Ríos towns of Gualeguay and Gualeguaychú”; “You cannot give a voice to those who, according to the news manager, are part of “the caste.” When asked who the caste was he mentioned Pablo Moyano, Eduardo Beliboni and Sergio Palazzo”; “coverage and any mention of the closure of the Télam Agency were prevented,” and “the same thing happened with the act in defense of INCAA that took place at the door of the Gaumont Cinema, which included numerous cultural personalities and which ended with repression, also made invisible”; “they lowered the column on native peoples”; “They ordered several notes and columns of the newscast to be downloaded from the Public TV website.”