Press workers on alert on Milei's announcement of privatizing public media

In Argentina, press workers are on alert after president-elect Javier Milei's announcement that he will be privatizing public media. teleSUR

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00:00 The press conference, the press workers in Argentina are on alert after President-elect

00:05 Javier Mele announced that he will privatize the following media.

00:09 The decision would affect some 4,000 reporters, photographers, cameramen, designers, editors

00:14 and administrative staff.

00:15 According to the SMA, Social Media will impact Radio Nacional, which was founded in 1937,

00:21 the national news agency, The Lamb, founded in 1945, and Televisión Pública in 1951,

00:27 which are all headquartered in Buenos Aires but all have offices all over the country.

00:33 In response to Mele's warning, the Argentine Federation of Press Workers and the Press

00:36 Union of Buenos Aires have already started to organize assemblies in the affected media,

00:41 under the slogan "Without Polymedia, there is no democracy."

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00:47 [ Silence ]