Cristina Fernandez censors television program; former CNN reporter privileged witness

Thursday, March 15th 2012 - 02:52 UTC

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A former CNN in Spanish journalist Alberto Padilla was a privileged witness of censorship in Argentina, minutes before he was to be interviewed by a television channel in Buenos Aires: “the order to stop the program came directly from (Federal planning) minister De Vido”. Read full article

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Stefan
This is becoming more disturbing by the minute! Argentina, you truly are on a Fuhrerific path. What next? Black leather for the military?
Mar 15th, 2012 - 03:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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brit abroad
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham

Funny enough written in 1832 :-)
Mar 15th, 2012 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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jerry
Nothing surprises me about censorship and attempts at media control in today´s atmosphere in Argentina.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 05:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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brit abroad
Apologise for my error - above quote was not written in 1832! Thats when Bentham died.

now it will be interesting to see how the RG press cover this, especially in light of KFC's controversial relationship with them in the past.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 05:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
I found this lovely picture of minister De Vido wearing his best suit (http://content6.flixster.com/photo/13/79/64/13796436_sma.jpg).

Why didn't the Argsoc Ministry of Truth know he was coming on air earlier?
Mar 15th, 2012 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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PirateLove
When a government looks and acts like it is, you call it what it is -
a growing DICTATORSHIP!
Mar 15th, 2012 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
@6 It's technically called a Family Dictatorship, just like they have in North Korea.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Clyde15
What, deafening silence from the usual ranters !
Mar 15th, 2012 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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MistyThink
( 1 , 2 , 3, 4, 5 , 6 ,7 ,8)

You say :

odds and ends

I say :

The media is never independent anywhere in the world,
.....grow up.!
Mar 15th, 2012 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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rebeldenacion
Mad psychotic bitch is the best term for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner the current disaster president of Argentina!
Others around Cristina Kirchner that are also crooks are her vice-president, Amado Boudou, he is actually an owner of the company that prints money for the government in Argentina, a major conflict of interest, but he denies it, he owns the company in the names of other friends and associates. He is being investigated and surely will end up in jail where he belongs. Cristinas 2 VERY UGLY children, Maximo and Florencia Kirchner, are also very corrupt. Maximo owns all kinds of hotels and properties adn Florencia is a film student in New York and lives in a luxury Park Avenue apartment and is known for major cocaine use. Some of us who know her in New York remember how she always used to tell us how her parents have a bank account drawn on the Nation of Argentina and for her family money is no object. These 2 corrupt children of Cristina Kirchner are self proclaimed “militants”, they belong to 2 internal terrorist groups which Cristina Kirchner finances, “La Cámpora” and “Quebracho”. “La Cámpora” goes around to the poor shantytowns around the cities in Argentina and gives the poor people a bag of groceries, a sausage sandwich called “choripan” and $20 pesos to buy their votes. These people have no choice but to accept this as they are extremely poor and have no other hope. “Quebracho” is a terrorist group which Cristina Kirchner pays to protect her, they disguise their faces and go around shaking down businesses to get money and give back to the president. They are also responsible for drug dealing, robberies and murders.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBAjfgHLyk&feature=relmfu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwWSN2pukk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvQw00SV-c
www.ripoffreport.com/government-worker/argentina-tourists-m/argentina-tourists-murdered-l-33f51.htm
www.ripoffreport.com/federal-government/cristina-kirchner/cristina-kirchner-cristina-kir-dc9b0.htm
Mar 15th, 2012 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
@9 It's not freedom of media here, it's the fact that the media is so controlled and entangled with the portrayal of a government line that they actively seek to remove any freedom of speech. Like what were they so scared of this man saying?

Argentinian media is pretty much modeled on the Chinese media circus, which in turn was modeled on Goebbels' model.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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toooldtodieyoung
By the itching of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.........
Mar 15th, 2012 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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zulu99
Where is British_Kirchernist? I'd love to hear him wax poetic about this and Senora Cirugia Plastica's motivation behind it. And Think, don't you have a comment on this all the while calling everybody “fuckface”, etc.? What about Fido Dido, the Dutchman who lives in the U.S., yet loves Argentina more than life itself.... Where are you guys? Chime in on this.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero 601
@9 & @10

So .... is it time to get the tanks out or not? Just a question :-)))

DIOS, PATRIA O MUERTE.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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toooldtodieyoung
13 zulu99

Never mind them.

I think that British_Kirchernist is either in love with Cristina Fernandez or he is “doing” her
Think doesn't, not in the slightest..... and Fido_dido? not seen / heard from him yet....

No I'm more concerned with the whereabouts of Mavli-baby and his comedy posting..... Please don't say he has gone forever!!!
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atk357
@14, Artillero 601.
In answering your question, ....I would! (I am sure there should be someone there with the guts to do it..)
Mar 15th, 2012 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero 601
@16

My fellow countryman , don't expect the Generals that we have to the task .... we have no balls left in the Army anymore, sad but true !
Mar 15th, 2012 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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fermin
I am listening Daniel Hadad, main manager of C5N Channel right now on the radio. He is explaining that the cutting of the TV show was done by workers of the channel, with NO ORDER FROM ANY MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT. A not very smart worker at the channel cut it off because it had many minutes overlapping on the following tv-show and Longobardi (the interviewer never uses the earphone and nobody could advice him that he was running out of time)

Even if the Government doesn't like these comments of Alberto Fernandez CAN ANYONE THINK THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE SO CHILDISH to censure this and give all these lyers the excuse to come up with headlines like this one in Mercopress accusing the Government of censure??

This is a REAL LIE, a not sophisticated at all one.

Appart from this... Alberto Fernandez has been giving opinions like these ones since long time ago in different interviews, he was not saying nothing new...

Why would the government do this?? Even if this HILARIOUS invention was true... what advantage would the Government get??

Come on people! think before believing this...

Maybe this idea of a censuring government is easy to believe from people that has the idea of a banana republic goverment that controls %100 of the media and has a real power to control the media.

The truth is that the corporate media is out of control, and a few corporate media have had a lot more power than the Governments in Argentina since the military junta...

Appart from this, Longobardi hasn't complaint about censure.

Come on people, think before believing this... it would be very st_pid from the government to do this... is is childish.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
@18 I believe it. In a goebbelian run press, why wouldn't they be doing that.

The only question is, why do you find it to difficult to believe that this happened? why are you so quite to believe the deception afterwards?
Mar 15th, 2012 - 02:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero 601
@18

“The truth is that the corporate media is out of control, and a few corporate media have had a lot more power than the Governments in Argentina since the military junta.......”

Brother, that's a bunch of bullshit and you know it !!!!
Mar 15th, 2012 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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xbarilox
@ 9 we're talking about the acts of the government of Cristina de Kirchner, you are an idiot.

@ 18 fermin, the lovevly Camporista, the peaceful soldier of Cristina de Kirchner. I love your fascist propaganda, funny, really.
When you don't have arguments, blame the media. You are a fast learner fermin, it seems that Néstor Kirchner was a great teacher :) Va a llegarle el fin al gobierno kirchnerista, y va a ser terrible ese día para ustedes fermin, es sólo cuestión de tiempo. Como voy a disfrutar viendo como una vez más ustedes fracasan, porque son una mentira. Hilarious :)

@ 19 Fermin is part of the group La Campora, of course he will say he doesn't believe, the group La Campora is always behind these acts of censorship. De Vido is just a marionette, Máximo Kirchner is the man who gives the orders. Fermin is not here because he is an innocent Argentine fighting for the truth, Fermin is getting paid for this, basically with our money, they call themselves “militants”. These militants go where Cristina goes and give her all the applause she needs to make people believe she has all the support she's always talking about.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero 601
@21

Usted tambien se caga en el “modelo” xbox ?? :-))))
Mar 15th, 2012 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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geo
** 22 Artillo

How are you !

Do you have any idea where he is living right now ?

http://www.desaparecidos.org/arg/victimas/z/zaragozan/
Mar 15th, 2012 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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The Falklands are British
What creases me up the most about this story is reading the reaction from so many on here who are justifying the action.

Chuckle chuckle.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero 601
@23

Mexico? :-)
Mar 15th, 2012 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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BenC30
Censorship of television! Ha. Kirchner Regime is slowly headed into abyss. I wonder what odds I would get in predicting the next military coup.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pugol-H
And so it begins!
Mar 15th, 2012 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
The end begins.. with neo-Hitler at the wheel.
Mar 15th, 2012 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Ricardito
Now you can see. We, Argentinians, are not all into the same bag...
Mar 15th, 2012 - 09:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
Did Le Camping beat him up after they cut the feed?
Mar 15th, 2012 - 11:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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xbarilox
@ 22 Me cago en los “nacionalistas” argentinos porque simplemente son un montón de locas con el culo roto. Para ser nacionalista hay que tener pelotas, y estos maricones no las tienen.
They can do nothing but cry, they're useless.
Mar 16th, 2012 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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jerry
I think that ”18 fermin (#)“ should read ”18 vermin (#)”.
Mar 16th, 2012 - 05:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
So did Le Camping (Hiler Youth) beat him up after they cut the feed? Did they take him to one of their informal detention centres?
Mar 16th, 2012 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero 601
@31 :-))

@32 Jerry, usted tambien se caga en el “modelo”? lol!!
Mar 16th, 2012 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
(17) Mr Menendez

You say……
”My fellow Countryman, don't expect the Generals that we have to the task .... we have no balls left in the Army anymore”

I say:

Correct,.... Don’t expect the Teniente Generales, the Generales de Division, the Generales de Brigada, the Coroneles, the Tenientes Coroneles, the Mayores, the Capitanes, the Tenientes Primeros, the Tenientes, the Subtenientes, the Suboficiales Mayores, the Suboficiales Principales, the Sargentos Ayudantes, the Sargentos Primeros, the Sargentos, the Cabos Primeros, the Cabos, the Soldados de Primera or even the Soldados de Segunda to be “Up to that Task”……

But maybe one of those young, freshly graduated, females from the Colegio Militar de la Nación would do?…
In contraposition to their manly counterpart’s soft and breakable ”balls” their vaginas can take a real pounding……….
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Artillero 601
@35

Are we horny today Think ? :-))
Mar 16th, 2012 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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jerry
34 Artillero 601 - I would be glad to, but I cannot understand what this “model” is really trying to do, other than “screw all the Argentina people out of all the money you can, put in your pocket, then tell everyone what a wonderful condition that the country is now in, and it is all the result of the great model”.
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Think
(36) Mr. Menendez

Today and everyday...! I’m Argentinean, remember...?
Not much enticement in the political/military sphere though……..
We got the ”Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo”….
You got the ”Areperas de Campo de Mayo”…

Ps:
Just for your info, there was NO CENSORSHIP of Mr. Fernandez at C5N,a very powerfull oposition TV channel….

The program was scheduled to end at 2300 hrs, but went nearly five minutes over time and it was ended by the operator in charge….

You can see the time for yourself on that little clock on the lower right corner of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqb2WAaSuag
Mar 17th, 2012 - 06:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero 601
@37 & @38

Yo me pregunto .... when are we going to have a Country that we can be proud of ?

Argentina año verde?
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