Macri Opportunism: Wants To Enact Law To Protect Clarin

[Bajo_cero2]

The Congress enacted an anti trust law on media some years ago.
Clarin started a class action with the idea of never arrive to a desicion because, meanwhile, the law cannot be enforced to them with the complicity of some federal judges. 3 of them quit because the brives paid by Clarin were a big scandal.
Clarin lost the first desicion, won at the chamber and now is waiting for SC desicion.

Now Macri wants to enact a law to help Clarin to by pass the anti trust law and the SC desicion.

(Press and the federal stock market are a federal matter and only the Federal Congress can enacts laws about it.
The only way it can be valid, is if Macri creates a new country with the BA City).
Pathetic!
Corrupt!

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Bajo, I have a couple questions before I can understand this issue fully.

1. Does the Argentine government use taxpayer money to pay for government advertisements? This would include subsidizing popular TV events in which the only advertisements are pro-government ads.
2. If the answer to #1 is Yes do you think it is appropriate for a government (any government) to use tax payer money to promote itself?
3. Didn't this government pull all of its advertising money from Clarín when they started running stories that were contra what Cristina wanted to do? If I remember correctly, Clarín was a friend of Nestor originally and got large sums of advertising support from him and Cristina.
4. Doesn't this government direct all of its advertising money to the press that supports what Cristina wants to do?
5. Do you think it is a good idea for governments to have any "control" over the press, or is it better to have a free press that is free to write whatever opinion they feel is relevant and whatever opinion the public feels is relevant?

I'm asking these questions in good faith since the country from which I come doesn't engage in these activities. My government isn't in business for itself and I find government manipulation and control of the press an aberration in a supposedly free society.

 

[notebook.fix]

It's totally understandable. lawyers spend most of their time defending criminals.

 

[EdRooney]

I'm asking these questions in good faith since the country from which I come doesn't engage in these activities. My government isn't in business for itself and I find government manipulation and control of the press an aberration in a supposedly free society.

Not to pry GS, but which country is this with the sterling freedom of the press record, which "isn't in business for itself"?

 

[Joe]

Not to pry GS, but which country is this with the sterling freedom of the press record, which "isn't in business for itself"?

I think it is in the US. The country where the press was complicit in the hoax of the weapons of mass destruction/Iraq invasion.

 

[Joe]

In the coming months we can expect to see the Municipal and Federal police fighting it out on the steps of Clarin.

Is the Army loyal to Cristy?

 

[Matiasba]

I really can not understand people who defend Clarin position today.
That people need to get inforrmed of history, should read what they said in the worst hours this country knew. Should ask how they got to have that empire, know monopolic position they have in so many markets, in the interior, etc, how they acted with democratical elected governments, how they simple lie with operaciones mediaticas, how they extort different governments, how they evade taxes, how they can buy judges, etc, think about it!!!
If the congress promulgates a law, tidily, with all democratic institutions, following every step as the constitution says, (its not a decree), they made it with the people who represents the population of Argentina, and that law is suddenly stopped by a big corporation, because it is against their interests... its pretty obvious.


Clarin and La Nacion, who systematically attack every day to this government, were the allies the dictatorship had, and the ones who got better positionated when it finished. Thats why they are today the main newspapers, you have to denature and think it wasnt always like it is today.
La Nacion supported every single anticonstitutional government this country had!!
Clarin enters the dictatorship selling 300,000 per day and Cronica 800,000. When it finishes, Clarin 800,000 and Cronica 300,000. Is this an accident? Did it happen by chance?
Clarin is really a maffia with papel prensa, how they manage, how they charge others newspapers (except La Nacion, his partner in papel prensa) for the paper.

You have to be very naive to support Clarin. You can support this government, or at least some of their policies, like I do, how they managed with the poor people, subsidios, etc, but I cant deny they have a very maffious way to manage some bussiness, or that they are sometimes autoritharian, but Clarin? theres nothing to support from them!! they just lie, they are a lot more maffia than the government, they have a huge political power, even more than the government (if not, how can you explain the way they stopped the ley the medios).
Clarin has more political power than any politic from the opposition, Macri included. They are just waiting someone to arise as Cristina oponent to give him the support. I have no doubts that it will be Macri.

 

[sesamosinsal]

I'm asking these questions in good faith since the country from which I come doesn't engage in these activities. My government isn't in business for itself and I find government manipulation and control of the press an aberration in a supposedly free society.

I suppose you haven't heard about the Justice Department eavesdropping on the AP....

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Snip...

You have to be very naive to support Clarin. You can support this government, or at least some of their policies, like I do, how they managed with the poor people, subsidios, etc, but I cant deny they have a very maffious way to manage some bussiness, or that they are sometimes autoritharian, but Clarin? theres nothing to support from them!! they just lie, they are a lot more maffia than the government, they have a huge political power, even more than the government (if not, how can you explain the way they stopped the ley the medios).
Clarin has more political power than any politic from the opposition, Macri included. They are just waiting someone to arise as Cristina oponent to give him the support. I have no doubts that it will be Macri.

What you have said about Clarín may very well be accurate. But, if you are pig sitting in the middle of a pig pen with a bunch of other pigs you can't accuse all of the other pigs of stinking up the place. Clarín may be maffioso, but it's the only press that speaks out against the government because Cristina bought all of the others. I'd prefer to have at least one paper that is opposition than none even if it is corrupt. The alternative is much, much worse.

 

[notebook.fix]

I have a genuine question, is it possible that the current US administration has direct or indirect controlling influence via advertising or other government financial influence on more than 80% of the US media market?