In recent days, television was shocked by the unexpected resignation of Viviana Canosa to its cycle in A24, “Living with you”. The reason was that the channel refused to air the video in which residents of Santa Fe escrachaba the Minister of Economy Sergio Massa. He was the owner of the America Group, Daniel Villa, who assured that the decision not to broadcast videos of escraches was for all programs, because, as indicated in a statement, “they generated not only verbal but also physical violence against public officials, politicians and leaders.” The striking thing is that it is not the first time that the driver broadcasts a video of this type, she had already broadcast escrache videos to officials and, even, in the previous broadcast she aired one with escraches to the former Minister of Health Ginez Gonzalez Garcia. That the Group has decided to refuse before an escrache to Massa, for Canosa It was “prior censorship.”
On June 27, Canosa made his editorial, which he titled “The God’s anger”. “They scratched Gines Gonzalez Garcia at a service station. The truth, may God forgive me, he deserves it. They yelled at him “delinquent”, “jet”. It is very clear that we Argentines are not going to forget everything that this man and his government did to us in a pandemic, ”said the host while the images of the escrache occupied the prime time screen on A24. And the program continued as if nothing had happened.
“An editorial decision was made that had to do with the number of escraches that had been made to public figures and, personally, It seemed to me that this generated a state of shock and violence that it was not necessary to show”, Vila stated in dialogue with Ernesto Tenembaum on Radio Con Vos. And she added: “Viviana does a very strong journalism, which, personally, I do not share, but she has managed for more than a year with that freedom.”
Double Rod
According to the driver, the channel had already told her that she could not air a video about abortion because they considered it “in bad taste.” “Today I asked the channel if they would let me have an abortion. (…) And they told me no because the video was in bad taste (…) They have every right to tell me not to do it, but what I think is why on a television channel, in a media communication, you can talk all day about abortion, in favor of abortion, and when a driver, after ten at night, wants to play a video showing what an abortion is so that parents can sit with their children and watch the level of madness of these fundamentalists, they tell me no. Well, they told me no, so I’m going to upload it to my networks to take care of what I do, “Canosa said then. The driver accepted that refusal without considering it censorship, surely because she was not a politician. But the last “no”, she rejected it and led to her resignation.
