TOPIC: Globalisation » Economy » Media
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Date
2012-10-10
Actor
Greenslade, Roy
Source
Guardian
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2012-10-11
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Global Editors Group Raises Alarm Over Argentina Press Freedom Threat

"A world-wide group of editors has raised the alarm about a press freedom crisis in Argentina where the government is planning to break up the country's leading independent media group ... It is using a controversial media law in order to revoke its licences and sell off its assets. Yet the law itself is currently being challenged in the courts on the grounds that it violates constitutional rights. The Clarín group publishes Argentina's largest-selling newspaper, Clarín, which has been a consistently critical voice of the Kirchner [current President Cristina Kirchner's] government." (Quoted from article)

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