Apro / José Gil Olmos / MEXICO
Posted: 27/3/2011
all started with a presidential request. On the morning of August 5, 2010 Felipe Calderon met in Los Pinos with the owners of the major radio and television and newspapers and magazines. The President asked them to "be part of its" war on drugs, "self-regulate" their content, promote the idea that the government was winning the battle and "avoid" interview "criminals" not to turn them into heroes.
Seven months later came the result. On Thursday, 24 was announced the agreement for coverage of Violence officially marked 715 / 2 -Although the firm attended only half-hundred in a ceremony headed by the two major television networks, Televisa and TV Azteca
Pedro Torres Estrada, deputy publisher of El Diario of Ciudad Juarez, one of the most affected by violence organized crime, said in a telephone interview: "We suspect that behind all this are the hands of government." Proceso
comment a few weeks ago Claudio X. Gonzalez, on behalf of the Televisa Foundation, invited to sign the document. Rejected the invitation. "We were told that President Calderon was interested in having a meeting Earlier Tuesday in Los Pinos or elsewhere, and that would give great pleasure that we were present. We said thank you very much, but no. "
- Do you see a possibility of censure?
"We suspect that this is not a citizen. If we go back and review the terms of governments in relation to the coverage of violence, many of these are implicit in the agreement. They accuse us of being apologists for violence, we are creating heroes of criminals. We believe that, at some point, this might be behind the government's hand.
Raul Trejo Delarbre The communications expert provides a different view, but complementary: the agreement, he says, clearly meets the business interests of Televisa and TV Azteca, they need "standing" at a time when faced with the telecommunications giant, Grupo Carso.
"I can say with all responsibility, but without citing my source, that several media managers confirmed that I was Televisa's corporate office where they called to invite them to join in this document," said Trejo, president of the Association Mexico's Right to Information.
process adds in an interview that Televisa and TV Azteca the agreement is actually "an act of propaganda" and therefore was presented in a "scenario lamentable" and "show are": the Museum of Anthropology became a television set.
Regulation
Regular news coverage on the drug has been a goal of Calderón years. In November 2009 took place in Boca del Río, Veracruz, Congress Citizenship and Media. Joint Action, organized by the government of the entity and the Attorney General's Office. Participated Margarita Zavala, wife of the president. One of its main decisionmaking was that the media "Not grant space to the messages of criminal groups or their representatives."
On August 5, 2010, at the meeting at Los Pinos, Calderon insisted on the issue by asking media owners to join the Dialogue for Security. Towards a State Policy.
The meeting was private. Attendees included executives of Televisa, TV Azteca, Radio Mil, Organizacion Editorial Mexicana, El Universal, MVS, Radio Formula, Grupo ACIR, the National Chamber of the Cable Telecommunications Industry, the National Chamber of Industry Radio and Television (CIRT), Millennium Group, Radiorama, Radio Centro Unomásuno and newspapers, The Chronicle, La Jornada, La Razón and Rumbo de Mexico.
On 9 November of that year, opening the sixty-sixth meeting of the Inter American Press Association, Calderon again raised the issue. Noting that organized crime has become "the biggest risk to journalism and stands as the main source of restrictions, intimidation and repression to work," it called for the regulation of content.
"It is necessary to report the crime without apology, avoid playing into the media agenda of criminal organizations is not any way to hide the problems, but reflect the reality and put into perspective the great efforts we make to solve our problems, balance information, taking into account, yes, if necessary by the fact itself, news, voice of the criminal intimidation .
Thursday March 17 insisted on the edge of the joke: "If I had not been a politician maybe I would have devoted to journalism, which I like, is a profession that respect," he said speaking at the forum Mexico: Gateway to America organized by the group BBVA-Bancomer and the English newspaper El Pais.
"It would have made a newspaper called Balance sheet and the front would put aside all the bad news, the most important, and across all major good news. And amid the good or bad without any ranking there. "
After ensuring that the only "sit and unconcealed totally objective facts" are sports stories, Calderon said that "it must balance and put into perspective what is Mexico, not hide or ignore the problems that exist in the country."
signing the Agreement for the coverage of Violence Felipe Calderón seems to have achieved one of its goals: an alliance with a Mexican newspaper industry in its fight against drug trafficking.
Hours after the national broadcast of the event sent a message from Apodaca, Nuevo Leon: "I think this agreement demonstrates very clearly that the responsibility, when fully exercised by all and especially by the media, allows better cope with the phenomenon of criminal violence, violence caused by criminal groups and organizations that affect Mexicans. " Calderón
needed this agreement especially as polls published last month showed that his popularity has dropped to 52%, not seen since 2008, and increased public perceptions about crime and violence.
"Calderon has been uncomfortable for years with the media coverage of violence," said Raul Trejo. "Anytime you can reiterates his desire for media in Mexico has seen both good and bad issues, but sometimes there are not many good times to cover. I do not know if he sponsored, but applauded the agreement, "he says.
hollow measures
During the preparation of the agreement were members of the CIRT which raised the need reporters give them life insurance, training, security protocols and higher wages. Most of those working for media that signed the agreement without such benefits. Some do not have Social Security.
But the proposals were not successful, they stayed in the title of "establishing mechanisms for the protection of journalists in situations of risk."
The draft agreement, which could process consulting, are substantially different from the final document.
For example, in the second point proposed refuse interviews "with members of organized crime organizations (sic) where there is conviction against him. " In the final version only refers to "prevent criminals or suspected criminals or victims become public heroes" and "ignore and discard information that comes from criminal groups for propaganda purposes."
Those who did not want
It said the deal was signed by the major media in the country. But there were absences. Some were invited but declined to participate, such as El Diario de Ciudad Juárez, and other plane were not invited, as La Jornada, Reforma, Process, Multivision, TV Cable and many local media. Indeed
appear a few media entities in which organized crime is more violent, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Guerrero, Michoacan, Sinaloa and Nuevo Leon.
Pedro Torres states that although the environment in which work was invited decided not to sign the agreement because from their perspective is not so generally regulate the editorial, the reality of Juárez is not the same as that of other cities .
"We can not work under the same conditions as the envoys who have more freedom in managing the information that we who remain here when publishing the note. In addition there are safety issues that have to be present every time you publish something, and people who write in the distance is very different from the situation. We do not believe that this generalization is feasible with the criteria and principles for the coverage of violence. "
In an editorial on Friday 25 newspaper La Jornada questioned why, he said, "take a similar test to standardize the editorial of the majority of the country's media and seek a kind of truth only about a factor country full of ambiguities, gray areas are incomprehensible facts based on official releases and legally vulnerable by criminal organizations but also by public agencies. "
also complains that some companies that are leading the deal, as TV Azteca, have passed above the law and in 2006, when "recovered" the facilities of Channel 40.
The paper's editorial says breakdown of the Decalogue and falling into media lynchings, possibilities of censorship, threat to editorial independence and conjures up the ideas a few days ago the Chief Executive for federal, Felipe Calderón, on which in criterion should be the proper way to make a newspaper. "
and concluded, "you will favor Flaco means by choice aligned around a single truth and voluntarily yoked to triumphalism, omissions and errors of the official discourse. "
journalist Carmen Aristegui, in his column on Friday 25 in the newspaper Reforma, said that some of the signatories, in their collaborations, which have accused did not sign the agreement as "petty as ever."
The driver of the MVS morning news that it is impossible to shake the suspicion that the final intention of all this is, to paraphrase the specialist Edgardo Buscaglia, "managing the flow of information." That is, standardizing information and from the media, not from reality, to transform the perception of what is happening.
"The agreement was signed at the time when all indicators point to the failure of the government strategy," says Aris.
This note was taken from the following website:
The agreement, like the President
Arturo Rodriguez Garcia
The President Felipe Calderon's claims against those who question their security policy were echoed in the Agreement for the coverage of violence, driven by the Televisa-TV Azteca duopoly and signed by media representatives from around the country on Thursday the 24.
The lawsuit, filed in Mexico 2011 Initiative program, includes a section on editorial criteria of 10 points.
In the first three issues are addressed on the treatment to be given to information and match almost complete with the approaches on the issue Calderón stated almost from the beginning of his mandate:
1. Take a stand against the violence generated by organized crime, 2. Do not become unwitting mouthpieces of organized crime, 3. Properly sizing information.
addition, sections 7 and 10 indicates that the media should promote participation and citizen complaints and not interfere in the fight against crime.
On several occasions the President has referred to information disseminated by the media about the violence plaguing the country.
The February 25, 2010, at a meeting with businessmen in the Yucatan, the president delivered a speech in full agreement with the Decalogue of editorial criteria of the agreement:
"Of course, if you see the national press, of course the blanket left also in a village, a message from fellow for-so ... What it costs us to either you or the government to pay front of several million dollars, it does appear on the front page, full color, "he noted.
later said:
"Sometimes it's a sport, sometimes it comes to seeing how much we exacerbate our problems, how much we can amplify the challenges we . (...) And that does cause much damage, I'm not saying, stating that the problem does not exist, but we have a real problem of insecurity that we must fight, and if someone has an alternative, I say 'not bout ', to tell me, "challenged the president to his critics for his" war. "
At a lunch with ambassadors and Mexican consuls, on 6 January, instructed to "speak well of Mexico" and cited data from the violence that prevails in Central and South America, where the numbers of homicides are superior to those of Mexico. He insisted that there is a "perception problem" when broadcast material on this topic.
The first to take the floor were the directors of the National Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Services (Kanak-Servitur), whose leaders launched the "Let the good of Mexico" since mid-2010.
On January 25 Calderón inaugurated the National Tourism Convention called by the Kanak-Servitur. There was submitted the second stage of the campaign, entitled "Let's talk and act either by Mexico."
After the meeting the president signed a decree to declare 2011 as "Year of Tourism in Mexico."
Intellectual way
The president not only has used business meetings to send their messages to the media that did not agree with their policies. It also has used prominent intellectuals, for example, on Friday March 4, in granting the Order of the Aztec Eagle Badge degree, the largest awarded by the Mexican government, the Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa, it was full of praise to the current regime.
In his message Calderon told English-Peruvian reader whom he described as a freedom fighter.
Gone are
critical speech writer who coined the term "perfect dictatorship" to refer to the PRI regime. Moved, praised "freedom" that exists in Mexico and said excited to know that Calderon is one of his readers.
The signing was witnessed by prominent figures such as José Narro, rector of UNAM; Yoloxóchitl Bustamante, director general of the IPN, Juan Ramon de la Fuente, president of the International Association of Universities , Federico Reyes Heroles, president of the Governing Council of Transparency Mexico, Hector Aguilar Camin, director the magazine Nexos, and Homero Aridjis, writer and poet, among others.
marked
So leaders of organizations like the Mexican Council of Businessmen, Stand for the Best in Media, Communication Council, and citizens María Elena Morera, Common Cause, and Mrs. Isabel Miranda de Wallace.
There is also some governors who have come together to support. For example, of Durango, the PRI candidate Jorge Herrera Caldera, was full of praise for the president.
At a meeting held on Tuesday 22 in that state said: "From here I also join the millions of Mexicans who recognize and appreciate the strength and courage with which President Calderón faces the challenges of the country. In Durango we are allies of the president in the fight for public safety and against organized crime, "he said.
Pleased, Calderon said
"We need to keep working hard on the issue of security for Durango, because it is a fundamental problem in the state. Know Durango which has had and will continue to receive federal support to address and resolve this problem. "
This notice was taken of the following website:
http://senderodefecal1.blogspot.com/2011/03/proceso-el-acuerdo-al-gusto-del.html
The Republic of Televisa.
Miguel Angel Granados Chapa
MEXICO CITY, March 28 .- While missing 15 months in the constitutional election, Televisa seems to have accomplished his project to build the figure of the president. Now seeks something more ambitious. Wants to build the republic itself. Want to design the kind of society that govern Peña Nieto, the kind of media being tucked in, the editorial with which information is transmitted over public safety policy and actions of organized crime. It is not proposed to draw a line, but build a wall to divide the participants of the excluded. As if it were a giant club, Televisa reserves the right to refuse admission to the territories inhabited by the chosen, the type of people who star in the public life and are able to build trust. No that is not on the list prepared by Televisa will have real existence. Be left out in the side of the highway.
Such unconscionable purpose is the objective of Mexico Initiative, a project of propaganda that has already had its first edition last year. With huge device called the presentation of ideas and tasks that would realize the true capabilities of Mexicans. There were thousands of such projects in different fields, some of which were awarded to denote that there is a portion of society do not waste your time or expect government assistance for their personal or group interests.
now launched the second edition of Mexico Initiative. The curtain rose on Thursday 24 with a grand meeting and not in a private (the former convent of San Hipólito), but in a public auditorium, the National Museum of Anthropology. The content of this new edition is more overtly political than the first. Televisa adopt it earlier than last year, when it began in June. Now released in March, full elections. It refers to the social communication related to the violence generated by organized crime. And from there, from the definition of the subject, adopting a perspective akin to the government, which requires responsibility away from itself in the genesis of violence: it arises only in criminal activity, not because the state is also practiced .
The ostensible part of Mexico Initiative II is the Agreement for the coverage of the violence. Televisa and its allies and dependents prepared a sort of code of ethics that assumes (which is not presented as such, but is explicit) that the collective information management is essential for the effective containment of violence generated by the crime organized. " That is, information policy consistent, uniform, can decrease violence, spread it out as its cause. That reasoning would follow easily the corollary that to suppress the violence there is no need to stop talking about it, to deny the company the information you need to regulate their lives.
There are other assumptions, some implicit, in the formulation of the objectives of the Agreement. It is assumed that the news coverage of violence can serve "to spread terror among the population." Having the direct effects of violence without doubt creates fear, but it is difficult to prove que la difusión de la violencia lo cause también. Un indicio de que no hay relación de causa-efecto entre difundir violencia y provocar miedo acaba de ser observado: hay gran violencia en Acapulco, de la que se sabe fuera del puerto, y sin embargo esa información no inhibió al turismo nacional para llegar en los puentes recientes. El del fin de semana pasado permitió que hubiera más del 90% de ocupación hotelera.
El Acuerdo enumera 10 criterios editoriales que deben aplicarse “sin demérito de la independencia editorial de cada medio”. En general, tales criterios son adecuados y compatibles aun para medios que no suscriben el Acuerdo. Algunos de ellos son, But frankly ridiculous. The first two are in that case. The initial order "take a stand against." Instruct (because we use the verb) "to condemn and reject violence motivated by organized crime", something completely unnecessary, because it is "in the nature of things" as they say in the language of the authors of the decalogue. The second is downright funny. Any means to avoid becoming "unwitting spokesman for organized crime": How to avoid an involuntary act, as it is just that, something that is done without meaning to?
actually that this provision calls on the media is a deliberate bias that alters the meaning of information. Orders "ignore and discard the information that comes from criminal organizations." Certainly refers to narcomensajes, banners and signs that advertise characters actions or statements. If that command proceed as prescribed, you run the risk of making the incomprehensible, which is devoid of one of its elements, which can make sense.
The remaining criteria are generally acceptable, sharable. Some come from basic manuals of journalism, as an appropriate measurement information ", or legal provisions, as "Not to prejudge guilty" and "care for victims and children." To believe that resulted from a self-criticism of television, which has recently arrested and convicted to be merely an extension of stakeholders and illegal messages from law enforcement authorities or public safety, which condemned but later time and without adequate dissemination, exonerate the judges because they are innocent or because their responsibilities were not tested.
journalistic code of Mexico Initiative, is Televisa's rules "protect journalists' and "solidarity against any threat or action against reporters and media." Are empty words in the mouths of journalists that were in pride over the union solidarity wanted to show during and after the crisis last July, when reporters and television cameramen were kidnapped. A protest march against such action came not involved, and even rejected the gesture of those who do not consider worthy of being called peers. In more recent cases, instead of siding with media reporters and called into question, the networks were the authors of the question, in devising devious accusations are not based in any way. That was For Ricardo Ravelo, a reporter of Process, and the journal itself, as well as the newspaper Reforma, all identified as perpetrators of crime, when committed only to bare the political actions, not informative, Televisa.
Regardless of the decalogue, the objectionable portion of this Agreement is the message that will create a "citizen monitoring body" to examine the media's adherence to these editorial policies. This is a threat of exclusion. Agreement means subscribers will form the catalog of the "good news", as it always did religious corporations. Be medium struck anyone miss any of these commandments, according to observers citizens. And do not tell the marginal situation in which the media have not been invited or declined to participate in this Agreement. They were placed with the omission as suspects, as the government wants to do this weekly, which offended twice and placing copies of the magazine with stockpiles confiscated from criminal gangs. The first major condemnation of this reaction will occur inquisitorial system, you have it for sure, when Ismael Zambada, El Mayo, and Joaquín Guzmán Loera, El Chapo, respond to questionnaires submitted to them by Julio Scherer Garcia, as he relates in his book Stories death and corruption, in the sense that continues the publication of his encounter with Zambada. Instead of considering the value of journalism, the social utility of knowing the motives of those who are in check the country, the false teachers of journalism, harmless and wicked purveyors of ethical know neither of the lining, would they want to have parts of that caliber in which prime.
That's the kind of journalism who have no place in the Republic of Televisa.
This view was taken from the following website:
http://www.proceso.com.mx/rv/modHome/detalleExclusiva/89610
Agreement for coverage of Violence.
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