These days the renowned specialist Carmen Aristegui news-what irony is itself a story. media company MVS terminated his contract on the pretext of a severe lack corporate code of ethics. I must say that it is contradictory given that Carmen Aristegui was co-author of this code and incorporated it into MVS when he joined his team.
I wanted to know the path of the journalist to get a more robust view of the matter. Share from here, a summary of what I got.
[Carmen Aristegui (fig.1)]
Carmen Aristegui
Daughter and student
Aristegui's father was about 6 years old when his family came to Mexico to seek refuge from the horrors of the English Civil War . Aristegui, the 5th. 7 children, having seen its first light in Mexico City on January 18, 1964, absorbed in their training experience that both shocked his father, causing her prone, as she tells it, to be interested in social and political issues [1]. To meet such interests entered the College of Sciences and Humanities .
At 17 he got a job at an accounting firm, enabling it to alleviate some of the efforts of their parents to hold as many children as well as earned him something of personal independence. [2]
At the age of 19 are married, their relationship lasted 10 years, as she claims both were on good terms.
His parents tried to urge it to take a short run, however, she was convinced of study at the university and in pursuit of this goal began a degree in sociology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM ) . During his studies, the impression caused the organized struggle of the university in a time that the rectory had the intention to increase fees to students, was strong enough to make a career change, thereby interrupted and replaced Sociology of Communication Sciences. Following the urging of one of their teachers, who argued that the policy is learned in politics, for 4 months looking for a place in a political party after was to get involved with the brigades of PRI proselytizing during the candidacy of Carlos Salinas de Gortari for President.
In 1987, a year before graduation, started work in Channel 13, station at that time gubernamental que luego sería privatizado y se convertiría en Imevisión. En ese canal, por azares de la vida, tuvo la oportunidad de esporádicamente salir al aire en una cápsula sobre asuntos financieros [21]. Laboró luego en varias empresas de medios; tuvo una cápsula en Imevisión; un programa de radio sobre Derechos Humanos en Radio Educación ; condujo junto a su compañero Javier Solórzano un noticiero en FM Globo ; aceptó una oferta de Stereo Rey para ser la anfitriona de un noticiero vespertino, programa en el que estuvo al aire por alrededor de una década... Aristegui y Solórzano condujeron también un programa issued by the company Multivision. It may be surprising to learn that Aristegui was also adviser to the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE ) in 1997 and behaved, however briefly, the Olympic torch was due to Athens in 2004 [3].
Traveling at a slightly earlier date, in 1999, Aris had an experience of great importance as a human being: that year gave birth to her only son, Emilio. Besides
Image Group was formed by a peculiar triad dealers, shareholders and journalists, whose mission was to establish an independent newsletter, founded on this basis, we have all freedom to report done without any hindrance . It was then to be defined not an editorial but a guiding document of what would and would not be, the three journalists involved, Carmen Aristegui, Javier Solórzano and Con Pedro Ferriz, drafted a code of ethics [2 ]. In the beginning, the project was successful, sometimes extending to television through an alliance with Televisa . The program addressed issues shunned by mainstream media as femicide in Ciudad Juárez and pedophilia of Marcial Maciel [2].
That same year, corría el 2001, Aristegui obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Periodismo . Para infortunio de la conductora, en esa misma temporada comienzan sus fricciones con el consejo de la asociación de Grupo Imagen, que, en un intento por acallar a la periodista, deja a Pedro Ferriz a cargo de la vicepresidencia de noticias [2]. La tensión llegó a su cenit el día que Ferriz de Con le negó el acceso a la cabina de transmisiones señalando que había «faltado a la ética» [4]. Finalmente, en 2002, Aristegui renuncia a su puesto en Grupo Imagen. Varios de sus compañeros renunciaron también, entre ellos Javier Solórzano y Denise Dresser [5].
En 2003 Televisa Radio gave Aristegui, Javier Solórzano news space, later to be hired by Channel 52 Multivision. Two years later the same decided to end the professional relationship that had united for 16 years, she would not give further details of the plea.
The story was repeated and left Aristegui W Radio in 2008, a consortium associated with Grupo Prisa, in turn owns the prestigious English newspaper El Pais . To explain this breaking journalist explains that the project foresaw the impact that would have internal structures fundamental editorial direction, however, the same journalist statements suggest that the radio station refused to endorse the contract because her information space denouncing his misdeeds of members of the leadership of the country. Bluntly reported cases involving the Federal Government and high officials of the Catholic Church [6]. Likewise, the governor addressed the harassment Mario Marín the researcher Lydia Cacho and lobbying the duopoly television (Televisa and TV Azteca) to win exclusive powers of the State should be the lease of space to third parties. The latter event caused a stir and was named in the media as the "Televisa Law " he was involved in Juan Ignacio Zavala -brother of the now First Lady Margarita Zavala - when he agreed to a position of senior executive the Mexican branch of the Grupo Prisa. [5]
Carmen Aristegui
later began working for MVS in a series of radio programs. In 2005 he was hired by the U.S. news network CNN to head a television broadcast. Today our day program "Aristegui " is a showcase, true to the style of the driver, indicating subjects rough in the reality of Mexico, without neglecting the rest of the world relevant.
A blanket, and Los Pinos Aristegui
few days ago a journalist was expelled for breaking MVS, the statement of the company [7], code of ethics. As I mentioned at the beginning of this writing, the code was brought to the company by Aristegui when he joined the team years ago [8]. It lay to his radio show was the first among similar hearing Morning [8], as it intensifies the cry of censorship if we analyze the principle that no profitable firm would throw the wedding is a project that attracting capital, at least if they have not exhausted the means of reconciliation. His dismissal, and perhaps more importantly the air have taken a leading program in the preferences of the audience, caused a loud uproar in the mass media and social networks. In Twitter, for example, the statistics showed that the word "Aristegui" came to rest as much as on the cusp of global trends, the views expressed here mostly relied on the reporter [9]. The reason for the dispute, is an apparently homogeneous consensus was that the presenter, after addressing the thorny issue of Labour Party Members ( PT) who accused Felipe Calderón of being an alcoholic and yet take the wheel of the country, topped with an equally controversial question: "Felipe Calderon is or is not a drinking problem?". Before concluding the interview invited the Chair to rule on that point.
[The sign of discord (Fig. 2)]
thumbs up, thumbs down
But as there is consensus on whether the act described is sufficient reason to justify the expulsion of a critical voice. The differences in the verdict have been fired a groundswell of opinion both journalists and intellectuals as citizens, who have been large pearl of superlatives and fuss, a part counters that the issue is a blatant affront to freedom of expression, which impairs the democratic look real or simulated set out in Mexico, at the other end says the reporter, lacking the rigor demanded by the work of journalists, made a slander a truth, an event in itself immoral and further blackened by reaching the investiture zaherir presidential. Some civilian agencies have not missed an opportunity to comment on this event, including international Reporters Without Borders, whose position is that the absence of a detailed explanation on the part of mobile expatrón dismissal, leading to suspicions that one way or another end up pointing to censorship [10]. The Mexican Association of Information Rights ( AMEDI ) was closely following the case and ruled in favor of the journalist [11].
The controversy came to the Lower House where left-wing lawmakers complained that the incident was an attack on freedom of expression, since the pretense rumor was not the result of a personal opinion Aristegui, but was limited to commenting on a story originated there in the Congress. Based on these arguments resinstalar ordered them to MVS to the journalist.
Among the population's response has not been limited to the expression of views, a conglomeration anonymous Internet has organized and executed a computer attack DDoS type several MVS chain portals, why have stopped working for several hours on different days [12]. Process according to the weekly the official website of the Presidency of the Republic was also the target of the attacks [13]. (DDoS assaults, to shed some light on the subject, are brought about by thousands, perhaps millions-even Reading a Web site, simulating a myriad of users attempting to access concurrently so, so that the stress exceeds the capabilities of the server and it ends up not answering the demands of real visitors) .
Carmen's voice and the official replica
Going now to the version of Aristegui, which was published in a press conference at the Casa Lamm Cultural Center [14], it argued that his expatrón , vulnerable to the impending expiry of one of its vital concessions, was forced to yield to the demands of authorities, more extreme than they were. It details the MVS executives currently negotiating the renewal of its license for the commercial exploitation of the spectrum from 2.5 to 2.7 GHz [15], the corporation still continues to exploit the resource if your license has expired, which can give us a sense of nervousness that is afflicting their owners and executives.
After learning that abuse can be said that the voice of Carmen Aristegui was prophetic when in an interview published over a decade ago argued:
In our country, and is something that we clearly know, there has been certainly perverse relationship among dealers of electronic media and political power. To benefit the system was invented the discretion of the state that gives or removes Awards. [16]
Returning to the conference at the Casa Lamm, perhaps the loudest critics in the speech prayed to be contained within the fragment continues:
Embrace who in all colors and with different languages have spoken out against what is clearly an authoritarian and unconscionable and unacceptable ... such an event is only imaginable in dictatorships nobody wants to punish Mexico ... comment or questioning by the rulers. [17]
In a separate conference, this one starring the Presidential Secretary Roberto Gil Zuarth, he said that the institution is respected "scrupulously" freedom of expression and it denied that any coercion emanating against media and journalists [6]. The spokesman took his statement to inform you that Felipe Calderón is healthy and this is confirmed when observed it has never failed in his duties.
to publish this text see the good that is circulating Aristegui news that will be reinstalled on MVS [18]. Will the controversy over unexpectedly became sick a spot marked than the official party, presumably tolerant to all voices, wanted to wash as soon as possible at a time when talk of the presidential election of 2012?
Epilogue
The Presidency, with its boundary, let MVS as the only villain in this story.
Carmen Aristegui
strengthened again, plus it will surely have an audience more loyal and more numerous due to the enormous publicity that the crisis brought free.
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My conclusions
Calderón The alleged alcoholism, a subject that could well have been of limited scope and duration no more than anecdotal, was taken by those well beyond wished, however, to be discarded soon. The great mistake of those who carried out the dishonest trick was to act impulsively, without even weighing the most obvious consequences of the act.
Following the restitution of Aristegui I can say that the first loser was MVS, as the swirling event highlighted in its list of priorities, the money is on the values and morality, it should be elemental in a media company, commitment to spread the reality as it is. The second shot was the federal government because the intended aim of fib expanded and gave first material for satire and mockery are now flooding the cyberspace also that, as explained above, the heavy flow of spilled expressions the country and intolerance to freedom of expression in the country was exposed globally.
If I insisting on seeking a left to blame for the actions of Aristegui sometime this episode, I'll take that up in a context where the question of Carmen Aristegui was only fib, their failure becomes a mere slip sise analyze the trajectory that precedes and that shows that success is in its passing the rule rather than exception. As a saying that says "Errors are human" ... Aristegui it is aware of it ... or at least is what emerges from the following excerpt from an interview I did years ago:
The key point of this office is the journalistic approach And this concept is so subjective whatever you want to see. Objectivity in journalism ends up being an impossible , all the time you are choosing and discarding information. It is the eternal game of note is what you is more relevant to society, which is someone who listens and who sees you. After all you have to do, is to exercise the journalistic approach. Sometimes they will target but there are times when you're wrong in your perception . [19]
I believe that the animosity that the reporter wakes up in some unfortunate passion that was shown in a more sharply defined the recent crisis, it alights on the grounds that his detractors displayed in their banners, but they serve as a mask to disguise what it really is unacceptable to them stubborn and irrational ethics [20]. The human and professional values that are made to take into account that portion of reality that mass media spread disdain for his results in a separation of consciousness and social and political understanding that they find inconvenient. Aristegui, in contrast, has no qualms about the reasons which force a mass protest, the reasoning of the uncomfortable intellectual hegemony, the thousand faces of corruption, the gray games impunity, and vice incompetence of the administration of justice ... and many other topics related to the wiles of a few to wield power and wealth.
About the Presidency ... my opinion on their performance is to stick in all the lyrics to that exhibited Aristegui on the dismissal of an executive at the time he worked for Grupo Imagen:
The point was that for an alleged lack of respect to an alleged authority of the Image Group, Ivo had to remove the management. I think that magnified an incident with the clear purpose of enforcing authority. To me it is clear that when someone takes an attitude to assert its authority, is that no such authority . [4]
Also I stick to their idea of what is open and, therefore, freedom of expression:
is having a chance to say things. Saying things that can be strong even against the system itself. It can refer to public figures by name . is to question and to analyze how government policies in open . Is able to make reflections on public issues although it affects interests. [21]
Remato this entry with a sentence uttered by her and which now could not fail to retract:
today I do not think media can receive Call the Secretary of the Interior, as before, for a communicator street or go to the news. [19]
Notes and sources:
- Carmen Aristegui -Who: http://www.quien.com/perfiles/carmen-aristegui
- journalism, a profession with a lot of adrenaline : Carmen Aristegui-Israel Gerardo Montes, Socket: http://zocalo.laneta.apc.org/texto.shtml?cmd [14] = x-14-3775c386ba95f08298aff33866035926 & cmd [ 23] = c-2-70
- Ten facts you did not know Aristegui -Vanguard: http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/diezdatosquenosabiasdearistegui-648124.html
- Aristegui Interview: Me I can look in the mirror and feel good about myself -José A. Fernández, Canal100: http://www.canal100.com.mx/telemundo/entrevistas/?id_nota=2882
- Carmen Aristegui -Wikipedia: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Aristegui
- "Saying Reporter Loses Job after Calderon Claims Should Respond to alcoholism " -Ken Ellingwood, LA Times: http:// www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-calderon-journalist-20110210, 0.665705. story
- MVS Transcript of statement on air-Aristegui Goals: http:/ / www.milenio.com/node/640269
- Aristegui, the scenes of a censure -Jenaro Villamil, Process: http://www.proceso.com.mx/rv/modHome/detalleExclusiva/88136
- Reviews on Twitter over the firing of Carmen Aristegui Flores -Pepe, Living in Mexico: http://vivirmexico.com/2011/02/opiniones-en-twitter-por-el-despido-de- Carmen Aristegui
- polemicize Aristegui dismissal of journalist in Mexico -Associated Press: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AMN_GEN_MEXICO_PERIODISTA_SPLA-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE = STEM = DEFAULT & 2011-02-08-20-16-37
- Carmen Aristegui and freedom of expression -AMEDI: http://www.amedi.org.mx/index.php?option=com_content & ; view = article & id = 607: Carmen Aristegui-and-freedom-of-expression & catid = 59: press & Itemid = 105 They claim
- MVS hackers attack in support Aristegui -Arlen Pimentel, Goals: http://www.milenio.com/node/643059
- Netizens boycott Presidency websites and MVS - Alejandro Saldivar, Process: http://www.proceso.com.mx/rv/modHome/detalleExclusiva/88250
- Video of press conference given by Carmen Aristegui regarding his dismissal from MVS-RadioAMLO, YouTube:
- Carmen Aristegui and President -La Silla Rota: http://lasillarota.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=4370:carmen-aristegui-y-el-presidente & Itemid = 68
- Interview with Carmen Aristegui: Mexico is still the transition to democracy, we all need to mature -José A. Fernández, Canal100: http://www.canal100.com.mx/telemundo/entrevistas/?id_nota=1223
- Stenographic version of the Statement of Political Animal Aristegui-: http://www.animalpolitico.com / 2011/02/version-estenografica-del-pronunciamiento-de-aristegui-video /
- journalist Carmen Aristegui return to its controversial program after dismissal -Google/EFE: http://www.google.com / hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5i_fiI26JfC354MZTZOP72U90pbOA? docid = 1465155
- Interview with Carmen Aristegui: The key to journalism is to highlight what is most relevant to society, Joseph A. Fernández, Canal100: http://www.canal100.com.mx/telemundo/entrevistas/?id_nota=6369
- or what, is not confronting the powerful as you see irrational behavior? (I recommend the reader read the mediocre man, Jose Ingenieros, work in which he argues that human values are worth to be exercised by Polaris to bring development to companies).
- Interview with Carmen Aristegui: The playing news anchor tightrope-José A. Fernandez, Canal100: http://www.canal100.com.mx/telemundo/entrevistas/?id_nota=2891
- Weekly Report: Mexico abroad; section "Los Angeles Times," Reporter Saying looses her job after Calderon Should Respond to alcoholism claims "" - Political Animal: http://www.animalpolitico.com/2011/02/reporte-semanal-mexico-en-el-extranjero/
- "Carmen Aristegui sacking half inflame Mexico row '- BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12414223
Images:
- -Contadero
- Carmen Aristegui, Blogspot: Felipe Calderón
- Alcohol-Donkeys and dogs, Blogspot: http://burrosyperras.blogspot.com/2011/02/felipe-calderon-alcoholico.html