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Missed Opportunity?

By Martín Becerra, Guillermo Mastrini

Despite all the rhetoric, Argentina’s 2009 media reform law was actually based on democratic principles and ideas. The problem has been in the implementation.

For the past five years, Argentina’s current government and the Clarín Group, the country’s principal media conglomerate, have been on a collision course.

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has denounced the group on national TV for having once been “partners” with the military dictatorship and accused its executives of plotting against her. Meanwhile, Clarín, the country’s most widely read newspaper (and the group’s most important media property) has returned the favor with front-page denunciations of the government and scathing editorials, including one calling an...

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