The President published an extensive text in TN and EltreceJavier Lozano and Nicolás Palermo, were unable to enter the building despite having formally approved accreditations.
In the message, Milei dismissed the complaints of censorship and maintained that freedom of expression does not equal impunity. “A mistake that journalists often make is believing that freedom of expression means saying anything without any type of consequence,” he wrote, and concluded with his diagnosis of the sector: “Privileges and guidelines. That is the true claim of some journalists.”
The president also pointed out against the official guideline of subnational governments as a factor that distorts the media market and artificially supports journalistic companies that would not otherwise survive. “Market correction mechanisms do not work since they are artificially sustained at the service of some politician’s interest,” he argued. What he omitted: that his own management distributes state advertising through companies with a majority shareholding of the State, such as Aerolíneas Argentinas, or mixed companies such as YPF.
Faithful to the tone of the Official Response Office – the body created specifically to respond to the media and opponents on networks – Milei promised to fight in the digital field. “We are going to answer each of their lies, their operations and their insults”he warned.
Spokesman Manuel Adorni, meanwhile, resumed his morning conferences and reinforced the presidential line: he maintained that “Under no other government did journalists have so much freedom to say what they want”. Meanwhile, inside Balcarce 50, the security headquarters implemented a new protocol that prohibits those accredited from circulating through the hallways or approaching the Patio de las Palmeras. Its circulation was limited exclusively to the work room. As additional and eloquent data: the press room windows that face the outside were modified to completely block the view outside.
ADEPA publicly questioned the exclusion of journalists from TN and Eltrece, joining the critical voices about the conditions of access to information at the headquarters of the Executive Branch.
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