is the media for 21st century - hhmmm!!!!!

I elaborated below on why your suspicions are probably right on the mark.

And Happy New Year, mazzarro! Best wishes for 2016.

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Argentina has one of the freest media in Latin America (certainly compared to Colombia and Central America, where journalists are routinely harassed or killed). This is designed to change that.

The new Macri media watchdog, ENACOM, is being established completely by decree without so much as congressional review.

The AFSCA agency that Macri is dissolving (which in 2009 replaced the monopoly-promoting COMFER, a dictatorship-era entity dating from 1972) was debated in both houses of Argentina's Congress for about a year, and was contested in multiple levels of the judiciary for four more (it was upheld by the Supreme Court - no friends of then-President Cristina Kirchner - in 2013). AFSCA is Argentina's counterpart to the FCC.

Macri, moreover, is installing (again, by decree) a failed candidate from his own party to oversee the ENACOM. The man, Agustín Garzón (a graduate of the Opus Dei controlled Austral University), has no experience in the media.

The OAS - which like the UN, the Carter Center, the IFJ, and Reporters Without Borders endorsed the Kirchner-era Media Law and the AFSCA as "models for the region, especially the U.S." - has taken notice of this pretty blatant move on Macri's part to control the media. The OAS Freedom of Expression Rapporteur (monitor), Edison Lanza, labeled Macri's move as "trying to make (the department) in the image of the new government," that its "autonomy is over," and that its a policy from "back in the times when governments had full control over the office.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110846509

Thank you for this timely post, Judi Lynn. And Happy New Year! All the best for 2016.

You are surely helping us get a far better picture of what is happening under this pro-Dirty War dictatorship new President Macri. He hit the ground running and he hasn't stopped heading back toward Dirty War times, yet, not for a moment.

Putting even the news squarely back with the fascists in charge tells us all we need to know about Macri.

Had to quickly grab a photo of the fascist dictator Videla toasting the owner of the Clarin newspaper empire, Ernestina Herrera de Noble:

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(Very rough google translation, the last sentence says, I think, "the entire country paid for this aberrant alliance".)

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Thank you for bringing this link to the forefront. I am very interested in this, also.

Happy New Year to you, and your loved ones, forest444!

yeah these people stand for FWEEDOM! We liberals have so much in common with the anti-socialists.

You mean the American corporate media and the establishment party heads, dished propaganda for a government of right wing Murdoch shills? People who want to make their media just stupid ours?

It's a global model, whereby media is to be a servile branch of each country's elites.

Argentina's 2009 Media Law, though moderate in scope (it still allowed the largest media company - Clarín - to control 35% of the market), broke with that scheme by precluding outright media monopolies. 35% control just isn't Orwellian enough, you see.

Happy New Year, betterdemsonly. Best wishes for 2016!