[background=rgb(247, 247, 247)]-[On Monday], out of the blue, there was suddenly long list of the charges that have been brought against [former president] Cristina [Fernández de Kirchner] which was fascinating because they had avoided doing this type of thing before.[/background]
[background=rgb(247, 247, 247)]-I don’t know whether that very strange change in tune means that there will be more independence. The important thing for any journalist is to have independence: it’s never total, of course, but it has to be there. I suppose what happened is that the people at the [/background]Herald[background=rgb(247, 247, 247)] had to follow the line and lost some of their readers. It would have been reasonable enough for journalists to stop being so-called [/background]militantes[background=rgb(247, 247, 247)] [i.e. activists] and just be journalists.[/background]
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-So you consider that the Herald had a streak of periodismo militante [activist journalism]?[/background][background=rgb(247, 247, 247)]
-Yes but those are silly words, aren’t they? If you work for the Communist Party newspaper, you all work together for its ideals, but if you work for a proper newspaper, you don’t have that, or you shouldn’t have that. Although there were journalists doing a wonderful job, others during the K regime in relation to the Herald didn’t seem capable of reporting the reality rather than the relato. The narrative was always there. They carried on doing great work on human rights, but the newspaper picked up the narrative without questioning it. That’s why I couldn’t carry on writing for them anymore: I compared them to the frogs swimming in water that is slowly rising in temperature and being boiled alive without realizing it. [/background]