We the undersigned, journalists and media professionals, radio and television, cultural representatives and teachers and researchers in social communication from universities in Argentina, before the next visit of a delegation from the Inter American Press Association (IAPA ) , we state:
1) That the sanction of the Law on Audiovisual Communication Services is a huge step for our democracy.
2) The repeal in 2009 of the crimes of libel and slander was another important step towards the performance of our work untethered.
3) The ignorance of the law of monopolistic groups of communication is a daily threat to press freedom, as noted in Item 12 of the Declaration of Principles of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) monopolies or oligopolies in the ownership and control of the media conspire against democracy by limiting the plurality and diversity which ensure the full exercise of the right to information of citizens.
4) Who are these groups that threaten the right of the audience to exercise their full rights when they violate legal resolution 296/2010, the AFSCA, including on the grid to alternative channels to the dominant cable operator offering a as Paka -Paka, Telesur, Inca TV and CN23.
5) That the management oligopoly arbitrary production and distribution of newsprint, the main input of the printing press, now in private hands constituted a majority shareholder after a transfer starring physical subjects investigated in the justice for alleged crimes against humanity, violating the Article 13 of the Pact of San José de Costa Rica, a constitutional status in our country, which states: "You can not restrict the right of expression by indirect means, such as the abuse of government or private controls over newsprint, radio frequencies or equipment used in the dissemination of information or any other means to impede the communication and circulation of ideas and opinions. "
6) That there is full freedom of opinion, but the spread of ideas is threatened by information monopolies.
7) We condemn the censorship exercised by Cablevision, a company of Grupo Clarin, the journalist Marcelo Almada.
8) We condemn the persecution of trade union newspaper companies that violate freedom of expression and conscience. SIGNATURES
Victor Hugo Morales, Juan Gelman, Alejandro Dolina, Horacio González, María Seoane, Adrian Paenza, Stella Calloni, Héctor Larrea, Norberto Galasso, Robert Knight, (from top) Felipe Pigna, Lidia Fagales, Juan Carlos Camacho, Ricardo Forster, Victor Ego Ducrot, Eduardo Jozami, David "Coco" Blaustein, Eduardo Anguita, Carlos Ulanovsky, Eduardo Aliverti, Paul Llonto, Hernán Brienza, Ricardo Rouvier, Gustavo Cirelli (Argentine Time) Muleiro Vicente, Jorge Déboli (Secretary of DYPRA), Mona Moncalvillo, Tom Lupo (National Radio), Guillermo Saccomanno, Rodolfo Braceli (Day), Carlos Barragan, Cynthia Ottaviano (Time Argentine National Radio), (follow signatures).
Source: Tiempo Argentino
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