Government attacks on journalists, axis of the presentation of a book by Jorge Fontevecchia

What to deal with government attacks? That was one of the main questions that survived the presentation of A book of Jorge Fontevecchiain the Victoria Ocampo room, of the Book Fair, with the Ricardo Roa participationDeputy General Editor of Clarion, Tomás Reborddriver of the Streaming Blender channel, and Fontevecchia, president and founder of Editorial Profile.

Roa stated that “the decision is continue doing what we should do, journalism. This is: counting what happens, he likes it or does not like the government. Accept to criticize us, because that is part of the democratic game. But one thing is to criticize and another is to insult. Milei, sometimes, choose to be tweeter before presidentand confuse the two things: use the logic of sewer of the networks. ”

“We see A kind of Milei showwho now believes that it is convenient to denigrate independent journalism. The new caste is journalists. Will it serve you? It is paradoxical that Do not get into Kirchner media and that, on the other hand, it tries to dirty the media and journalists who read and follow their own voters. These days he has insisted with hate in labeling us as hate prophets. It is a case of Divan but also a classic Christian strategy, ”said Roa.

And he added: “The show and aggressions are worrisome: we know that similar things here have ended in tragedy. Milei is power and how much tweete Gordo andwho just came out to ask They imprisoned a journalist by decree”.

Rebord differentiated between the presidential attacks that he or Baby Etchecopar can receive, which “does not affect me, or restricts freedom of expression.” While “there is another analysis when you are Pablo Grillo and you fly the head lid for taking a picture in a mobilization; or if you take a picture of Santi Caputo, that photographer will not have spent a good weekend, for exercising his profession. Also the other day they screwed him to Palos to Roberto Navarro,” the Blender driver exemplified.

And he continued: “It is not the same as the president is commanding hate. I am less concerned about the issuer than For the receptors of that message. They are the State and that is a different responsibility. That is something that does not dimension mileism. And if from there cruelty is built, the response is disrupt, “Rebord said.

Fontevecchia stated that “a few months ago, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, told the public ‘you are the media now’, pointing a cell phone. In Argentina, a libertarian influencer nickname The minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, said that journalism is a profession in extinction. “

Then, Fontevecchia occupied most of his exhibition in reading A text I had written in 2012when he entered the National Academy of Journalism, where he analyzed the journalistic profession and communication, with references to Sigmund Freud, Claude Levy Strauss, Paul Valery, Louis Althusser, Karl Popper, Friedrich Nietzche and Michel Faucault, among others, generating some discomfort in part of the youth audience that had gone to listen to Hold, One of the most popular streamers, which does not self -perceive as a journalist.

While “professions do not last forever,” “Journalism will be long -lived, because the need to explain what happens will not cease. Nietzche said that the human being can endure anything, unless there is no explanation. That is why we create explanatory and, among them, we create journalists, “said the founder and profile president.

The profile owner initiated a trial for Milei for “injuries”, before grievances of the president, who called him “Tinturelli”, “waterproof”, “serial break”“Prebendary entrepreneur” who “lives from the pattern”, among other disqualifications. But none of that was discussed in the talk, except when Roa stressed that “Fontevecchia has been having a systematic defense of freedom of expression. Therefore, he has had problems with governments of different colors that happened in Argentina. “

The talk at the Book Fair was interrupted for a few minutes, before starting, by a group of union activists that distributed flyers claiming a salary increase.

“Press freedom is the right of the media to investigate the facts and events of the day to day, without this leading to censorship, harassment or harassment of journalists during the exercise of freedom of expression,” said the moderator of the talk, Nuria I haveconductor of the Economic Channel E.

It is that the government deepens the attacks against journalism, without journalists and the media finding an adequate response to Milei’s harassment, its officials and the parastatal communication apparatus that enhances the attacks.

One of the phrases that Milei repeats since the last month is that “We do not hate journalists enough”convening their followers to multiply harassment.

The attached general editor of Clarion He mentioned the episode that starred this week “the star advisor Santiago Caputo, who in a public place, the debate of candidates for Buenos Aires councilors, photographed a photographer who had pounced to take images. Caputo photographed also your identification cardas saying: eye, take care of yourself, because We already know who are. So much or sadder was the alcahuetía with Milei of another Caputo, the minister, who with enthusiasm predicted the disappearance of journalists. More than a forecast is a desire. We bother them. ”

“This of attacks is not new. We suffer them with Kirchnerismwhich armed a public spit, with toilets and photos of some journalists that now attacks Milei, such as Joaquín Morales Solá. They invited fans to spit those journalists, as Milei now calls journalists, ”Red recalled.

For his part, Tomás Rebord clarified that he did not trained as a journalist and eluded “the journalist’s nickname to escape the formal requirements of the profession. I never intended to build neutrality. I am not a journalist, so I can’t help feeling that I am that I am a little strained In this talk. “

“Before entering, I asked Jorge (Fontevecchia) if I was sure to invite me to this talk. And his response was that in this same room they stabbed a speaker. He told me five minutes before starting,” said Blender’s driver, generating the laughter of a filled room, who accompanied the presentations of the exhibitors with applause.