Juan in Natale opened the issuance of the program that leads to Bravo TV With an alarming fact: freedom of expression in Argentina not only retreated but suffers Attacks from the government itself. At the moment, The country occupies the 87th position of a total of 180 in the Global Ranking of press Freedom 2025 prepared by Reporters without borders (RSF). The collapse constitutes a Descent of 47 places during the government of Javier Milei.
The driver of “Communists”issued on the screen Bravo TV from Monday to Friday at 20.30detailed the reasons presented by the report: stigmatization constant towards journalists, the dismantling of public media and the use Opaque of the official pattern As a pressure method. “We are talking about a president who claims ‘more hate’ towards journalists”Said, referring to Recent expressions of Javier Milei. Santiago Caputo, presidential advisor, was also the focus of the analysis after being captured photographing intimidating The credential of a graphic reporter during a public act. “That image disturbs”the driver summed up.
The journalist and communication specialist, Eugenia MitchelsteinHe explained that the report has been prepared since 2013, and is based on surveys to experts and journalists from each country. As detailed, Argentina went from having 77 points out of 100 in 2022, just 56 in 2025. “The decrease is not linear: It is a collapse. Fell by factors such as closing of public media and the Concentration of the official pattern without transparency”Mitchelstein said, and stressed that the country was Below Brazil, Chile and Uruguay in terms of freedom of the press.
The economist Mercedes D’Alessandro He added another edge: “Currently, many journalists have three or four jobs to reach the end of the month. That precarious the quality of the information. ”In addition, the Télam closurenews agency that fulfilled a central role in the federalization of content: “Before, an important news about Misiones arrived in Buenos Aires. Now it is lost in local silence,” Mitchelstein graph, and completed: “In the provinces, the press depends on the pattern of governors or intendants. If someone does not conform, the news is not published,” he said.
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The panorama they traced in the program did not leave room for optimism. In Mitchelstein’s words: “There is no No indication that this will improve next year. On the contrary, the curve remains in a mince threat concrete to the free exercise of the Freedom of expressionas evaluated at the table.
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