He Government of Javier Milei temporarily suspended, as of this Tuesday, the web pages and publications in social networks of the Argentine public mediaofficial sources reported.
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The measure began at midnight this Tuesday and affected the portal and the networks of Public Television, National Radio, the FM Classical, Rock or Folk music channels and the thematic channels Encuentro (cultural) and Paka Paka (children’s).
All types of transmission and/or broadcast of content on social networks are suspended until changes in criteria are established
The message that appears on the websites described is identical to the one published last March on the page of Télam, the state news agency that was then closed by the Government, because, according to the Executive, “it has been used in recent decades as an agency of Kirchnerist propaganda”.
As Agustín Lecchi, secretary of the Buenos Aires Press Union (SiPreBA), explained to Efe, This deepens the “emptying” of public media, a process that began with the measures taken by the Executive on Télam.
Protests by the Telam agency.
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The Public Television worker considered that it is one more “escalation in destruction”, while the ‘base law’, the star project of the Argentine Executive, is in Senate committees awaiting discussion in the Upper House after the half-sanction in Deputies and which, if approved, contemplates the privatization of public media.
“Indirectly it impacts all workers because it affects expression on social networks,” added Lecchi, who expressed that communication with the authorities is “inconducive and useless” and reported that the union is preparing legal actions against these decisions.
On February 5, the Milei Government published in the Official Gazette the intervention for one year – extendable – of the state media within its policy of “reorganization of public companies.”
The Educ.ar portal, National Radio, Public Television, the Télam news agency and the segmented Public Content signals (Encuentro, Paka Paka, Depor TV, ACUA Mayor and ACUA Federal) made up this list.
Javier Milei.
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What happened to Telam?
Also in March the government suspended all Public Television weekend newscasts, along with the cancellation of all live programs except some news broadcasts. In addition, payment for overtime and holidays was cut at National Radio, which meant that the 49 stations in the interior of the country had to cancel weekend programming and retransmit the Buenos Aires programs.
Public radio in Argentina has been transmitting since 1937. It has one of the few bicontinental stations in the world, the one in Río Grande in Tierra del Fuego (south), which can also be heard in part of Antarctica, the Malvinas Islands and the South Atlantic Islands. Public Television, for its part, began broadcasting in 1951 and was the first television station in Argentina.
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