Dear Jake:
you
writing from the embarrassment I have caused the dismissal of Carmen Aristegui, for alleged violation Code of ethics of MVS. I have been collaborating for MVS radio two years ago as a participant in the political agenda of Monday. I've always appreciated the space, support and freedom during that time gives us there. I've always thought of you as a man willing to take risks to defend principles, taking unpopular positions and take on the government when necessary. I am therefore even more surprising is your decision, which runs counter to your biography, company history and personal and professional profile that has been built. I think you've made a grave error, very serious, as a result of which everyone loses: MVS lose, you lose, you lose freedom expression, loses the presidency, the country loses. Here's why:
1) will never be a consensus on the decision of Carmen Aristegui to address the issue of the blanket in Congress, denouncing the alleged alcoholism of Felipe Calderon as he did. Some would argue that reported on a news event and made the relevant questions and there are those who say they are exceeded. Some would insist that he was entitled to challenge Felipe Calderón as he did and some will replicate that mistake. Some would stress that the mental health of a president is a matter of public interest and some will answer that is strictly private. Some may question to Carmen for giving validity to the approach of Gerardo Fernandez Norona and some will say that they became major news at the time they suspended the work of Congress.
Regardless of the position that readers, listeners and the general take, what is clear is that not a journalist is fired for making awkward questions, or to air controversial issues that generate stinging editorials . If so, no Mexican journalist would use at this time. No international journalists have survived to that yardstick. Rush Limbaugh has already been dismissed by accusing Barack Obama of "Muslim" William Safire had been fired for calling Hillary Clinton a "congenital liar" Larry Rohter had been fired for writing about problems with alcohol had Lula; Jorge Ramos had been sacked by Vicente Fox asking if I used Prozac. But layoffs do not occur precisely because the founding value of freedom of expression protects corporate interests above the hurt feelings or the aforementioned.
2) In issuing a statement which ensures that Carmen Aristegui "violated the code ethics of the company, has generated enormous and self-suspicion. First, you'll be forced to make public the code of ethics, including the explicit prohibition of spreading rumors as information, signed by her. And if not produce, still feed the speculation that surrounds you. If you call from Los Pinos to demand an apology and demand it be Carmen. If you wanted a favor to government-handing Carmen's head on a silver platter in return for the renovation and expansion of your concessions. At the time of the first thing you do get them will be sold to Carlos Slim. That quite some time felt that the presence of Carmen in MVS was a threat to your business interests and, at bottom, his dismissal at this time was only a pretext. This is what is said about you repeatedly. This is what leaves it up every time you mention your name. With an oversized, angry reaction, has been hit tarnish your reputation and your family. From today you will be seen as a censor, a repressor, a man intolerant. Someone who does not understand the principles of democracy, for survival-needs shelter.
And even deny the pressure of the Presidency, will your word against Carmen Aristegui. Will your version of events against hers. And in this confrontation has everything to lose, because there were many ways to give a solution to this problem. MVS could have issued a press release saying that the position expressed by Carmen was not the official position of the company, period. But in requiring Carmen to read a written apology for you, you closed the door to a better solution for everyone involved.
3) If your goal was to ingratiate yourself with Los Pinos, in fact you've sent a poisoned apple. The protests by the presidency will be seen as an effort failed to deny his involvement. If you Felipe Calderon called for an apology from Carmen Aristegui, the perception among millions of listeners on MVS at the moment is that it was. If Felipe Calderón does not have a drinking problem, after this farce will be even harder to convince the public otherwise.
Today the President is facing a serious image problem. Which gives the impression of getting angry too, deny too, demanding apologies and heads to demand only confirms the accusation against him. And you, Joachim, to act as you did, you have contributed to create that perception. Your behavior has indeed been suicide. And that, as well Carmen Aristegui said in his press conference, does not deserve your family does not deserve MVS, citizens do not deserve it, Mexico does not deserve it. As a contributor to MVS, as someone who has celebrated the independence and civil value of the company in the past, as a Mexican citizen aware of their rights and willing to fight to defend them, I ask you to reconsider your position and stop a process that has reversed against you.
As he wrote the novelist Pearl Buck, Nobel Prize winner, "Every great mistake has a halfway point, that second when it can be retracted and perhaps remedied. " That time has come for you, Joachim. Would appeal to the better angels of our nature, instead of succumbing to the worst demons that you have owned in recent days.
February 10, 2011
Source: emeequis
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