Public TV, Radio Nacional and Télam expressed their rejection of the decision to privatize public media

After the president-elect, Javier Milei, has expressed his intentions to privatize the public media, Radio Televisión Argentina (TV Pública and Radio Nacional), Télam and Contenidos Públicos issued a statement repudiating the statements. One of President-elect Javier Milei’s first statements was to reaffirm his decision to privatize public media. This position generates enormous rejection and concern as it demonstrates a great ignorance of the role they play in the construction of democracy,” they said. In addition, they detailed the functions guaranteed by public media: “Information as a right and not as a commodity”, “coverage throughout the national territory, which now also extends to the digital territory”, “the plurality, diversity and inclusion of its contents”, etc. And it closed with the signature of each of the headlines of each of the public media that are expressed in the statement. What did Milei say? In radio statements made on Monday morning after the runoff, he said: “We consider that Public Television has become a propaganda mechanism. During the campaign, 75% of the time that our space was talked about was done in a very negative way, fertilizing the dirty campaign, the campaign of fear.” I don’t subscribe to those practices of having a covert Ministry of Propaganda: it has to be privatized. Same with Radio Nacional. Everything that can be in the hands of the private sector is going to be in the hands of the private sector,” he added.

Original source in Spanish