“We do not hate enough to” journalists. “Still,” wrote the user @MileieMerador, says associated with Santiago Caputoa few months ago in X. The message linked to the main presidential advisor anticipated the official guideline of confronting journalism, which would then be repeated and amplified by militants, officials and libertarian trolls on social networks.
In the Cycle of Antonio Laje of A24, the driver interviewed the president Javier Milei referring to the atmosphere of political violence that is lived in the national situation. “Saying, for example, that ‘society does not hate journalists enough,’ I remember this for what happened to Roberto FunesThat is not violence? ”Asked the journalist of the program” Another morning “, recalling the aggression that the television reporter received in the request for the request of justice for the triple drug femicide.
The president separated himself from being responsible for this panorama and accused sectors of Kirchnerism of inciting the violent facts that manifested in the electoral campaign. “Who assaulted it?” Milei replied, pointing to the protesters who were present in the protest. Differentiating that physical violence is not comparative to violence exercised in social networks.
“Social networks have a certain dynamic, if we do not know how to understand how social networks are going. Now physical violence, which is the one that truly has consequences, that is exercised by Kirchnerism,” said the libertarian leader and added: “It is unacceptable to put on the same level, physical violence, which goes against your life, your freedom and your property, against a tweet.”
Interpellated by Laje’s question and visibly out of time, Milei flatly denied that attacks via social networks messages have harmful consequences for the recipient. A position that recalls the tweets that the same president uploaded to his personal account against journalism and earned criticisms of the Inter -American Press Society (SIP) and the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA).
On April 29 of this year, in his account of X and with the title of “Message to the journalists”, Javier Milei posted: “Give The same time is outrageous that every time errors are pointed out (they do not bank back), instead of apologizing or clarifying the issue, they cry attack on the press. ”
Closing the message, the president concluded: “They understand that they are not above anyone and that when they err (much more than normal) ask forgive He doesn’t hate journalists enough. ”
Fopea warned in his annual presentation on strong growth in the aggressions to the press during 2024 throughout the country. The entity, who already urged the national government repeatedly to sustain “a mature institutional relationship with the press, respecting dissent and criticism,” registered 179 aggressions during the last year. It represents 53% more than in 2023 and twice what was 2022. 45.25% of those registered cases were of stigmatizing discourse. That is, threatening the reputation of journalists. 65.43% of those attacks were made by the same president of the Nation. In addition, 80% of cases come from violence of state and parastatal origin.
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